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1. (The Adhvaryu) offers the Vājaprasavīya (-offering).¹

2. There should be seven cultivated plants (their grains) and seven uncultivated (forest) (grains)¹;

3. having made separate liquid mixtures of the flour of these grains (along with ghee) these foods, having offered the mixture of cultivated (grains) by means of a spoon of Udumbara wood¹ with vājasyemaṁ prasavaḥ…,² he offers the mixture of uncultivated (grains).

4. After every act of offering he pours the remnants in a wooden vessel.¹

5. Having placed a seat of Udumbara wood near the joint of the right (southern) wing with the hip¹ of the fire-altar, having spread a black antelope skin with its neck to the east and the hairy part upwards³ on it, he sprinkles the remnants⁴ on the sacrificer who is sitting on it (the skin) and who is touching the fire-altar.⁵

6. He sprinkles on a Kṣatriya (-sacrificer sitting on) a tiger-skin¹; Vaiśya… a he-goat skin; on a sacrificer who is desirous of Brahman-splendor (sitting on) a black-antelope-skin…²;

7. who is desirous of prosperity … a he-goat-skin-according to some ritualists.³

8. Having recited devasya tvā… he sprinkles on a Brāhmaṇa (sacrificer) with agnestvā sāmrājyena, a Kṣatriya with indrasya, a Vaiśya with br̥haspateḥ…¹

¹ For the formulae see TS V.6.3.1-3; for the Sūtra cf. MS III.4.3.

9. Some (ritualists)¹ think that the formulae of the Kṣatriya and Vaiśya should be swapped.

10. Standing and with his face to the west, having sprinkled on the sacrificer sitting with his face to the east, he causes (the sprinkles) flow from the head upto the mouth (of the sacrificer).¹

11. Some (ritualists) say “Only the act of offering should be done; for one who has a undrgone Sava (consecration for a high rank) does not come down (from the chariot or seat) before anyone"¹.

12. Having offered libations of milk of a black cow having a white calf¹ with naktoṣāsā…², he offers the twelve Rāṣṭrabhr̥t (Kingdom-holder) (libations) in six rounds.³