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1. A she-wolf (he addresses) with (the verse), ‘Whether incited by others or whether on its own accord the Bhayeḍaka (? Bhayoḍaka, var. lect.) utters this cry, may Indra and Agni, united with Brahman, render it blissful to us in our house.’

यदीषितो यदि वा स्वकामी भयेडको वदति वाचमेताम् । तामिन्द्रा ग्नी ब्रह्मणा संविदानौ शिवामस्मभ्यं कृणुतं गृहेषु । इति सलावृकीम् १

2. ¹ A bird (he addresses) with (the verse), ‘Thou fliest, stretching out thy legs; the left eye . . .; may nothing here suffer harm (through thee);’

प्रसार्य सक्थ्यौ पतसि सव्यमक्षि निपेपि च । मेह कस्य चनाममत् । इति शकुनिम् २

3. An owl (piṅgalā) with (the verse), ‘The bird with the golden wings flies to the abode of the gods. Flying round the village from left to right portend us luck by thy cry, O owl!’

हिरन्यपक्षः शकुनिर्देवानां वसतिङ्गमः । ग्रामं प्रदक्षिणं कृत्वा स्वस्ति नो वद कौशिक । इति पिङ्गलाम् ३

4. ² ‘May my faculties return into me; may life return, prosperity return; may the divine power return into me; may my goods return to me.

‘And may these fires that are stationed on the (altars called) Dhiṣṇyās, be in good order here, each in its right place. Svāhā!

‘My self has returned, life has returned to me; breath has returned, design has returned to me. (Agni) Vaiśvānara, grown strong with his rays, may he dwell in my mind, the standard of immortality. Svāhā!

‘The food which is eaten in the evening, that does not satiate in the morning him whom hunger assails. May all that (which we have seen in our dreams), do no harm to us, for it has not been seen by day. To Day svāhā!’ - with these (verses) he sacrifices sesamum seeds mixed with Ājya, if he has seen a bad dream.

पुनर्मामैत्विन्द्रि यं पुनरायुः पुनर्भगः । पुनर्ब्राह्मणमैतु मा पुनर्द्र विणमैतु मा । इति अथैते धिष्णियासो अग्नयो यथास्थानं कल्पन्तामिहैव । स्वाहा । पुनर्म आत्मा पुनरायुरागात्पुनः प्राणः पुनराकूतमागात् । वैश्वानरो रश्मिभिर्वावृधानोन्तस्तिष्ठतु मे मनोमृतस्य केतुः । स्वाहा । यदन्नमद्यते सायं न तत्प्रातरवति क्षुधः । सर्वं तदस्मान्मा हिंसीन्न हि तद्दिवा ददृशे दिवः । स्वाहा । इत्यनभिप्रेतं स्वप्नं दृष्ट्वा तिलै-राज्यमिश्रैर्जुहोति ४

5. ³ Now the following expiations for portents are prescribed. A dove sits down on the hearth, or the bees make honey in his house, or a cow (that is not a calf) sucks another cow, or a post puts forth shoots, or an anthill has arisen (in his house): cases like these (require the following expiation):

अथैतान्यद्भुतप्रायश्चित्तानि भवन्ति । कुप्त्वा कपोत उपाविक्षत् । मध्वागार उपाविक्षत् । गौर्गामधैषीत् । स्थूणा व्यरौक्षीत् । वल्मीक उदैक्षीदित्येवंरूपाणि ५

6. ⁴ He should bathe in the morning, should put on clean garments, should show patience (with everybody) during the day, and should speak (only) with Brāhmaṇas. Having put wood on the fire in an inner apartment, and having performed the rites down to the Vyāhṛti oblations, he sacrifices with (the verses), ‘This, O Varuṇa,’ &c. (see above I, 2, 8, 16, down to the end of the Sūtra). Then he serves food to the Brāhmaṇas and causes them to say, ‘An auspicious day! Hail! Good luck!

स पूर्वाह्णे स्नातः प्रयतवस्त्रोहःक्षान्तो ब्राह्मणसम्भाषोन्तरागारेग्निमुपसमाधाय व्याहृतिपर्यन्तं कृत्वा जुहोति । इमं मे वरुण । तत्त्वा यामि । त्वं नो अग्ने । स त्वं नो अग्ने । त्वमग्ने अयासि । प्रजापते । यदस्य कर्मणोत्यरीरिचम् । इति च । अत्रैके जयाभ्याताना-न्राष्ट्रभृत इत्युपजुह्वति यथा पुरस्तात् । ब्राह्मणानन्नेन परिविष्य पुण्याहं स्वस्त्ययनमृद्धिमिति वाचयित्वा ६