०६ पार्वणव्रतम्

मानतन्तव्यो होवाचाहुता वा एतस्य मानुष्याहुतिर्भवति य औपवसथिकं नाश्नाति १

1. ¹ Thus has spoken Mānatantavya: ‘Unoffered indeed becomes the offering of a man who does not eat fast-day food.

अनीश्वरो ह क्षोधुको भवत्यकाम्यो जनानां पापवसीयसी हास्य प्रजा भवति २

2. ‘He becomes powerless. Hunger will attack him. He does not gain favour among people. His offspring will be perverse.

य औपवसथिकं भुङ्क्त ईश्वरो ह भवत्यक्षोधुकः काम्यो जनानां वसीयसी हा स्य प्रजा भवति ३

3. ‘But he who eats fast-day food, becomes powerful. Hunger will not attack him. He gains favour among people. His offspring will be still more blessed.

तस्माद्यत्कामयेतौपवसथिकं भुञ्जीयाताम् ४

4. ² ‘Therefore (husband and wife) should eat fast-day food which is pleasant to them.’

अध एवैतां रात्रिं शयीयाताम् ५

5. Let them sleep that night on the ground.

तौ खलु जाग्रन्मिश्रावेवैतां रात्रिं विहरेयातामितिहासमिश्रेण वा केनचिद्वा ६

6. They should spend that night so as to alternate their sleep with waking, entertaining themselves with tales or with other discourse.

जुगुप्सेयातां त्वेवाव्रत्येभ्यः कर्मभ्यः ७

7. ³ But they should avoid doing anything unholy (such as cohabiting together).

न प्रवसन्नुपवसेदित्याहुः ८

8. It is said, that when on a journey, he should not fast.

पत्न्या व्रतं भवतीति ९

9. For (say they, in that case) the observance has to be kept by his wife.

यथा कामयेत तथा कुर्यात् १०

10. Let him do (herein) what he likes.

एवमेवाहिताग्नेरप्युपवसथो भवति ११

11. In the same way also one who has set up the (Śrauta) fires should fast—

यच्चाम्नायो विदध्यात् १२

12. And (he should observe) what is enjoined by the sacred tradition.

अथ पूर्वाह्ण एव प्रातराहुतिं हुत्वाग्रेणाग्निं परिक्रम्य दक्षिणतोऽग्नेः प्रागग्रान्दर्भानास्तीर्य १३

13. Now in the forenoon, after (the sacrificer) has offered his morning oblation, and has walked round the fire on its front side, and strewn to the south of the fire eastward-pointed Darbha grass—

तेषां पुरस्तात्प्रत्यङ्मुखस्तिष्ठन्सव्यस्य पाणेरङ्गुष्ठेनोपकनिष्ठिकया चाङ्गुल्या ब्रह्मासनात्तृणमभिसङ्गृह्य दक्षिणापरमष्टमं देशं निरस्यति निरस्तः परावसुरिति १४

14. ⁴ (The Brahman) stations himself to the east of that (grass), facing the west, and with the thumb and the fourth finger of his left hand he takes one grass blade from the Brahman’s seat and throws it away to the south-west, in the intermediate direction (between south and west), with (the words), ‘Away has been thrown the dispeller of wealth.’

अप उपस्पृश्याथ ब्रह्मासन उपविशत्या वसोः सदने सीदामीति १५

15. Having touched water, he then sits down on the Brahman’s seat, with (the words), ‘I sit down on the seat of wealth.’

अग्निमभिमुखो वाग्यतः प्राञ्जलिरास्त आ कर्मणः पर्यवसानात् १६

16. ⁵ Facing the fire he sits silently, raising his joined hands, till the end of the ceremony.

भाषेत यज्ञसंसिद्धिम् १७

17. Let him speak (only) what refers to the due performance of the sacrifice.

नायज्ञियां वाचं वदेत् १८

18. Let him not speak what is unworthy of the sacrifice.

यद्ययज्ञियां वाचं वदेद्वैष्णवीमृचं यजुर्वा जपेत् १९

19. If he has spoken what is unworthy of the sacrifice, let him murmur a verse, or a Yajus, sacred to Viṣṇu.

अपि वा नमो विष्णव इत्येवं ब्रूयात् २०

20. Or let him only say, ‘Adoration to Viṣṇu!’

यद्यु वा उभयं चिकीर्षेद्धौत्रं चैव ब्रह्मत्वं चैवैतेनैव कल्पेन छत्त्रं वोत्तरासङ्गं वोदकमण्डलुं दर्भवटुं वा ब्रह्मासने निधाय तेनैव प्रत्याव्रज्याथान्यच्चेष्टेत् २१

21. ⁶ If one wishes, however, to do himself the work both of the Hotṛ and of the Brahman, he should in the same way place on the Brahman’s seat a parasol, or an outer garment, or a water-pot, or a bolster of Darbha grass, and should return in the same way (in which he has gone to the Brahman’s seat), and then should perform the other (duties).