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भूरित्यनकाममारं नित्यं प्रयुञ्जीत १

1. ¹ Let him daily repeat (the formula), ‘Bhūḥ!’ (MB. II, 4, 14) in order to avert involuntary death.

न पापरोगान्नाभिचरणाद्भयम् २

2. (He who does so) has nothing to fear from serious diseases or from sorcery.

अलक्ष्मीनिर्णोदः ३

3. (The ceremony for) driving away misfortune (is as follows).

यजनीयप्रयोगः ४

4. ² It is performed on the sacrificial day (i.e. on the first day of the fortnight).

मूर्ध्नोऽधि म इत्येकैकया ५

5. (Oblations are made with the six verses), ‘From the head’ (MB. II, 5, 1 seq.), verse by verse.

या तिरश्चीति सप्तमी ६

6. ³ The seventh (verse is), ‘She who athwart’ (MB. I, 5, 6).

वामदेव्यर्चः ७

7. ⁴ (Then follow) the verses of the Vāmadevya,

महाव्याहृतयः ८

8. (And) the Mahāvyāhṛtis.

प्रजापत इत्युत्तमा ९

9. The last (verse) is, ‘Prajāpati’ (MB. II, 5, 8).

यशोऽहं भवामीति यशस्काम आदित्यमुपतिष्ठेत पूर्वाह्णमध्यन्दिनापराह्णेषु १०

10. ⁵ With the formula, ‘I am glory’ (MB. II, 5, 9) one who is desirous of glory should worship the sun in the forenoon, at noon, and in the afternoon,

प्रातरह्णस्येति सन्नामयन् ११

11. Changing (the words), ‘of the forenoon’ (into ‘of the noon,’ and ‘of the afternoon,’ accordingly).

सन्धिवेलयोरुपस्थानं स्वस्त्ययनमादित्य नावमित्युद्यन्तं त्वादित्यानूदियासमिति पूर्वाह्णे प्रतितिष्ठन्तं त्वादित्यानुप्रति-तिष्ठासमित्यपराह्णे १२

12. Worshipping (the sun) at the time of the morning twilight and of the evening twilight procures happiness, (both times) with (the formula), ‘O sun! the ship’ (MB. II, 5, 14), and (after that) in the morning with (the formula), ‘When thou risest, O sun, I shall rise with thee’ (ibid. 15); in the evening with (the formula), ‘When thou goest to rest, O sun, I shall go to rest with thee’ (ibid. 16).

आचितशतकामोऽर्धमासव्रतस्तामिस्रादौ व्रीहिकाँ सौदनं ब्राह्मणान्भोजयित्वा १३

13. ⁶ One who desires to gain a hundred cart-loads (of gold), should keep the vow (of fasting) through one fortnight and should on the first day of a dark fortnight feed the Brāhmaṇas with boiled milk-rice prepared of one Kāṃsa of rice.

तस्य कणानपरासु सन्धिवेलासु प्रत्यङ्ग्रामान्निष्क्रम्य चतुष्पथेऽग्निमुपसमाधायादित्यमभिमुखो जुहुयाद्भलाय स्वाहा भल्लाय स्वाहेति १४

14. ⁷ At the evening twilight (of every day of that fortnight), having left the village in a westerly direction, and having put wood on the fire at a place where four roads meet, he should sacrifice the small grains (of that rice), turning his face towards the sun, with (the words), ‘To Bhala Svāhā! To Bhala Svāhā!’ (ibid. 17. 18).

एतयैवावृतापरौ तामिस्रौ १५

15. (He should repeat those rites) in the same way the two next dark fortnights.

तामिस्रान्तरेषु ब्रह्मचारी स्यादा समापनादा समापनात् १६

16. During the time between those dark fortnights he should observe chastity till the end (of the rite), till the end (of the rite).