०३ होमः

अग्निमुपसमाधाय परिसमूह्य दक्षिणजान्वक्तो दक्षिणेनाग्निमदितेऽनुमन्य-स्वेत्युदकाञ्जलिं प्रसिञ्चेत् १

1. ¹ Having put wood on the (sacred) fire, having swept"(the ground) round it, he should, bending his right knee, pour out to the south of the fire his joined hands full of water with (the words), ‘Aditi! Give thy consent!’

अनुमतेऽनुमन्यस्वेति पश्चात् २

2. To the west with (the words), ‘Anumati! Give thy consent!’

सरस्वत्य-नुमन्यस्वेत्युत्तरतः ३

3. To the north with (the words), ‘Sarasvatī! Give thy consent!’

देव सवितः प्रसुवेति प्रदक्षिणमग्निं पर्युक्षेत्सकृद्वा त्रिर्वा ४

4. With (the words), ‘God Savitṛ! Give thy impulse!’ (Mantra-Brāhmaṇa I, 1, 1) he should sprinkle (water) round the fire once or thrice so as to keep his right side turned towards it—

पर्युक्षणान्तान्व्यतिहरन्नभिपर्युक्षन्होमीयम् ५

5. Interchanging the points at which he begins and ends the (sprinkling of water), and sprinkling so as to encompass what he is going to offer (with the streams of water).

अथ हविष्यस्यान्नस्याग्नौ जुहुयात्कृतस्य वाकृतस्य वा ६

6. ² Let him then make oblations of the sacrificial food, be it prepared or raw, over the fire.

अकृतं चेत्प्रक्षाल्य जुहुयात्प्रोदकं कृत्वा ७

7. ³ If it is raw, he should sacrifice after having washed it and having let the water drop off.

अथ यदि दधि पयो यवागूं वा कँ सेन वा चरुस्थाल्या वा स्रुवेण वैव ८

8. If it consists in curds or milk or rice gruel, (he should sacrifice it) with a brazen bowl, or with the pot in which the oblations of boiled rice are prepared, or also with the (sacrificial spoon called) Sruva;

अग्नये स्वाहेति पूर्वां तूष्णीमुत्तरां मध्ये चापराजितायां च दिशीति सायम् ९

9. ⁴ In the evening the first (oblation) with (the formula), ‘To Agni Svāhā!’ the second silently, in the middle and in the north-eastern part (of the fire);

अथ प्रातः सूर्याय स्वाहेति पूर्वां तूष्णीमेवोत्तरां मध्ये चैवापराजितायां चैव दिशि १०

10. In the morning the first (oblation) with (the formula), ‘To Sūrya Svāhā!’ the second again silently, again in the middle and in the north-eastern part (of the fire).

समिधमाधायानुपर्युक्ष्य तथैवोदकाञ्जलीन्प्रसिञ्चेदन्वमँ स्था इति मन्त्रविशेषः ११

11. Having put a piece of wood (on the fire), and having again sprinkled (water) round it, he should pour out again his joined hands full of water in the same way (as prescribed in the Sūtras 1-3); in the Mantras he says, ‘Thou hast given thy consent’ (instead of ‘Give thy consent’).

प्रदक्षिणमग्निं परिक्रम्यापां शेषं निनीय पूरयित्वा चमसं प्रतिष्ठाप्य यथार्थम् १२

12. ⁵ Having circumambulated the fire so as to turn his right side towards it, having poured out the remains of water, and filled the vessel again, and put it (in its proper place), (he may do) whatever his business is.

एवमत ऊर्ध्वं गृह्येऽग्नौ जुहुयाद्वा हावयेद्वाजीवितावभृथात् १३

13. ⁶ In that way, from that time (in which he has begun to offer the two daily sacrifices) he should sacrifice, or should have sacrificed, over the (sacred) domestic fire, till the end of his life.

अथाप्युदाहरन्ति १४

14. Here now they say:

कामं गृह्येऽग्नौ पत्नी जुहुयात्सायम्प्रातर्होमौ गृहाः पत्नी गृह्य एषोऽग्निर्भवतीति १५

15. ⁷ ‘If they like, his wife may offer the morning and evening oblations over the domestic fire. For his wife is (as it were) his house, and that fire is the domestic fire.’

निष्ठिते सायमाशप्रातराशे भूतमिति प्रवाचयेत् १६

16. ⁸ When the morning meal or the evening meal is ready, he should make (his wife) say, ‘It is ready!‘—

ऋते भगया वाचा शुचिर्भूत्वा १७

17. In an unbroken voice (?), having made himself pure,

प्रतिजपत्योमित्युच्चैस्तस्मै नमस्तन्माख्या इत्युपाँ शु १८

18. ⁹ He replies in a loud voice, ‘Om!’ Then in a low voice: ‘To that (food) I bring adoration. May it not fail!’