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1. ¹ Now (follows) the sacrifice of the śūlagava (or spit-ox, for propitiating Rudra and averting plague in cattle).

अथातः शूलगवम् १

2. In the fortnight of the increasing moon, under an auspicious constellation, he puts wood on the fire, strews (Darbha grass) on the entire surface around the fire, cooks a mess of sacrificial food with milk, sprinkles it (with Ājya), takes it from the fire, builds two huts to the west of the fire, and has the spit-ox led to the southerly (hut) with (the verse), ‘May the fallow steeds, the harmonious ones, bring thee hither, together with the white horses, the bright, wind-swift, strong ones, that are as quick as thought. Come quickly to my offering, Śarva! Om!’

आपूर्यमाणपक्षे पुण्ये नक्षत्रेग्निमुपसमाधाय सम्परिस्तीर्य पयसि स्थालीपाकं श्रपयित्वाभिघार्योद्वास्यापरेणाग्निं द्वे कुटी कृत्वा दक्षिणस्यां शूलगवमावाहयति । आ त्वा वहन्तु हरयः सचेतसः श्वेतैरश्वैः सह केतुमद्भिः । वाताजिरैर्बलवद्भिर्मनोजवैरायाहि शीध्रं मम हव्याय शर्वोम् । इति २

3. ² To the northerly (hut he has) the ‘bountiful one’ (led); - (i.e. the consort of the spit-ox);

उत्तरस्यां मीढुषीम् ३

4. To the middle (between the two huts) the ‘conqueror’ (i.e. a calf of those two parents).

मध्ये जयन्तम् ४

5. He gives them water to drink in the same order in which they have been led (to their places), prepares three messes of boiled rice, ‘spreading under’ and sprinkling (Ājya) on them, and touches (the three beasts with those portions of rice) in the order in which they have been led (to their places), with (the Mantras), ‘May he, the bountiful one, touch it. To the bountiful one svāhā! May she, the bountiful one, touch it. To the bountiful one svāhā! May the conqueror touch it. To the conqueror svāhā!’

यथोढुमुदकानि प्रदायोपस्तीर्णाभिघारितांस्त्रीनोदनान्कल्पयित्वा यथोढमेवोपस्पर्शयति । उपस्पृशतु मीढ्वान्मीढुषे स्वाहा । उपस्पृशतु मीढुषी मीढुष्यै स्वाहा । जयन्त उपस्पृशतु जयन्ताय स्वाहा । इति ५

6. After he has performed (the rites) down to the Vyāhṛti oblations, he takes the messes of boiled rice (to the fire) and sacrifices them (the first with the Mantra),

‘To the god Bhava svāhā! To the god Rudra svāhā! To the god Śarva svāhā! To the god Īśāna . . . Paśupati . . . Ugra . . . Bhīma svāhā! To the great god svāhā!’

व्याहृतिपर्यन्तं कृत्वौद-नानभ्याहृत्य जुहोति । भवाय देवाय स्वाहा । रुद्रा य देवाय स्वाहा । शर्वाय देवाय स्वाहा । ईशानाय देवाय स्वाहा । पशुपतये देवाय स्वाहा । उग्राय देवाय स्वाहा । भीमाय देवाय स्वाहा । महते देवाय स्वाहा । इति ६

7. Then he sacrifices the consort’s rice to the consort (of Rudra, with the Mantra), ‘To the consort of the god Bhava svāhā! To the consort of the god Rudra . . . Śarva . . . Īśāna . . . Paśupati . . . Ugra . . . Bhīma . . . of he great god svāhā!’

अथ पत्न्योदनस्य पत्न्यै जुहोति । भवस्य देवस्य पत्न्यै स्वाहा । रुद्र स्य देवस्य पत्न्यै स्वाहा । शर्वस्य देवस्य पत्न्यै स्वाहा । ईशानस्य देवस्य पत्न्यै स्वाहा । पशुपतेर्देवस्य पत्न्यै स्वाहा । उग्रस्य देवस्य पत्न्यै स्वाहा । भीमस्य देवस्य पत्न्यै स्वाहा । महतो देवस्य पत्न्यै स्वाहा । इति ७

8. Then he sacrifices of the middle portion of rice with (the Mantra), ‘To the conqueror svāhā! To the conqueror svāhā!’

अथ मध्यमौदनस्य जुहोति । जयन्ताय स्वाहा । जयन्ताय स्वाहा । इति ८

9. Then he cuts off from all the three portions of rice and sacrifices the Sviṣṭakṛt oblation with (the Mantra), ‘To Agni Sviṣṭakṛt svāhā!’

अथ सर्वेभ्य ओदनेभ्यः समवदाय सौविष्टकृतीं जुहोति । अग्नये स्विष्टकृते स्वाहा । इति ९

10. Around that fire they place their cows so that they can smell the smell of that sacrifice.

अभित एतमग्निं गा स्थापयन्ति यथा हूयमानस्य गन्धमाजिघ्रेयुः १०

11. ‘With luck may they walk round our full face’ - with (these words) he walks round all (the objects mentioned, viz. the fire, the three beasts, and the other cows), so as to turn his right side towards them, and worships (the śūlagava) with the (eleven) Anuvākas, ‘Adoration to thee, Rudra, to the wrath’ (Taitt. Saṃh. IV, 5), or with the first and last of them.

स्वस्ति नः पूर्णमुखं परिक्रामन्तु । इति सर्वतः प्रदक्षिणं परिक्रम्य । नमस्ते रुद्र मन्यवे । इत्येतैरनुवाकैरुपतिष्ठते प्रथमोत्तमाभ्यां वा ११