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1. The Citistoma is to be performed by one who wants progeny.¹

2. A Brāhmaṇa desirous of braman-splendor should perform the Gāyatra Agniṣṭoma with the Rathantara-sāman as the first Pr̥ṣṭha-stotra.

3. There are two Gāyarta-Agniṣṭomas (one of which) can be performed as the first sacrifice.

4. By means of the first a Brāhmaṇa can obtain lustre and Brahman-splendour; by means of the second a Kṣatriya can obtain powerful and undisturbed kingdom. They, however, do not possess ample cattle.

5. An impure one should perform a nine-versed Agniṣṭut Agiṣṭoma sacrifice.

6. The Puroruc-verses¹ (in it should be addressed) to Agni, the Subrahmaṇyā (litany also should be)² addressed to Agni.

7. They praise (i.e. sing the Stotras and recite the Śastras) with the verses addressed to Agni¹. A she-goat and gold form the sacrificial gift.²

8. A Vedic-scholar who has been unlucky on account of dice or women or love or on a account of his behviour should perform this same sacrifice¹ performed as Catuṣṭoma.²

9. A brown horse is the sacrificial gift. It is to be given to the Brahman.¹

10. The same one-day-sacrifice but with the fifteen-versed Agniṣṭoma-sāman in verses addressed to Vāyu is to be performed for a sacrificer who is either diseased or desirous of food or desirous of progeny or desirous of cattle. The same one-day-sacrifice but with the Vāravantīya-sāman as the Agniṣṭoma-sāman, one should perform for a sacrificer who is de sirous of Brahman-splendor. The same one-day-sacrifice but as Catuṣṭoma is to be performed for a sacrificer desirous of village.

11. According to some (these Agniṣṭut-sacrifices) are to be performed without the Pravargya (-rite).

12. The sacrificer who desires food (should perform the Agniṣṭut sacrifice) with nine-versed Stoma;…

13. who desires strength.. with fifteen-versed-stoma;

14. The sacrificer who does not get any result of his sacrificial performance or fails in a sacrifice should perform Agniṣṭut Agniṣṭoma with seventeen versed-stoma.

15. The Agniṣṭut with nine-versed stoma is for one who has spoken improper things;

पञ्चदशो निहत्यस्य निरुक्तः १६

17. (The Agniṣṭut) with seventeen versed-stoma is for one who kills someone who does not de sire to be killed¹.

18. (The Agniṣṭut) with twenty-versed-stoma is for one who has gone to a foreign country: Gandhāra, Magadha, Pāraskara or Sauvīra.²

19. The Agniṣṭut with twenty-seven-versed-stoma is (to be performed) for one who desires power (the Agniṣṭut)

20. with thirty-three-versed-stoma is to be performed for one who desires heaven; or it should be Jyotṣṭoma (Agniṣṭoma) itself;

21. one obtains all the desires in the Agniṣṭoma.