History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c89.80

v7.c89.80

When the (darkness) floods the moon one should offer oblation into fire with the verse¹¹⁷⁸ "Rāhu creeps over the shining king (the moon), the former (Rāhu) strikes him (the moon) here (i. e. before us), a thousand of his (Rāhu's) bodies are to be destroyed; may (his) one hundred bodies perish!". Having offered oblations with the words 'svāhā to the Moon', he should offer oblations with the hymn 'Śakadhūmam nakṣatrāṇi yadrājānam-akurvata' (Atharva VI. 128. 1). This is the prāyaścitta in this case¹¹⁷⁹