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1. ¹ Now follows the distribution of Palāśa leaves (at different places).

अथातो बौढ्यविहार एव १

2. ‘Protector of the house, touch them! To the protector of the house svāhā! Protectress of the house, touch them! To the protectress of the house svāhā! Protector of the door, touch them! To the protector of the door svāhā! Protectress of the door, touch them! To the protectress of the door svāhā!’ - with (these formulas) he puts down four leaves; (then other leaves) with (the formulas), ‘Noisy ones, touch them! To the noisy ones svāhā! Quivered ones. . . ye that run in the rear . . . Minglers (?) . . . Choosers . . . Eaters, touch them! To the eaters svāhā!’ -

गृहपोपस्पृश गृहपाय स्वाहा । गृहप्युपस्पृश गृहप्यै स्वाहा । द्वारपोपस्पृश द्वारपाय स्वाहा । द्वारप्युपस्पृश द्वारप्यै स्वाहा । इति चत्वारि पलाशानि ददाति । घोषिण उपस्पृशत घोषिभ्यः स्वाहा । निषङ्गिण उपस्पृशत निषङ्गिभ्यः स्वाहा । अन्वासारिण उपस्पृशता-न्वासारिभ्यः स्वाहा । प्रयुन्वन्त उपस्पृशत प्रयुन्वद्भ्यः स्वाहा । विचिन्वन्त उपस्पृशत विचिन्वद्भ्यः स्वाहा । समश्नन्त उपस्पृशत समश्नद्भ्यः स्वाहा । इति २

3. Then again ten (leaves) with (the formula), ‘Divine hosts, touch them! To the divine hosts svāhā!’

दशाथापराणि । देवसेना उपस्पृशत देवसेनाभ्यः स्वाहा । इति ३

4. Then other ten (leaves) with (the formula), ‘Divine hosts that are named and that are not named, touch them! To them svāhā!’

दशैवाथापराणि । या आख्याता देवसेना याश्चानाख्याता उपस्पृशत ताभ्यः स्वाहा । इति ४

5. ² Then he makes a basket of leaves, puts into it a lump of boiled rice with an ‘under-spreading’ (of Ājya) and sprinkling (Ājya) on it, goes outside his pasture-grounds, and hangs (the basket) up at a tree with (the formula), ‘Quivered ones, touch it! To the quivered ones svāhā!’

अथ पर्णपुटं कृत्वा तस्मिन्नुपस्तीर्णाभिघारितमोदनपिण्डमवदाय परो गव्यूतिं गत्वा वृक्ष आसजति । निषङ्गिण उपस्पृशत निषङ्गिभ्यः स्वाहा । इति ५

6. ³ He then performs worship (before that basket) with (the formula), ‘Adoration to the quivered one, to him who wears the quiver! To the lord of the thieves adoration!’

अथोपतिष्ठते । नमो निषङ्गिण इषुधिमते तस्कराणां पतये । इति ६

7. ⁴ With sandal salve, surā and water, unground, fried grains, cow-dung, with a bunch of dūrvā grass, with Udumbara, Palāśa, Sami, Vikaṅkata, and Aśvattha (branches), and with a cow-tail he besprinkles his cows, the bull first, with (the words), ‘Bring luck! Bring luck!’ Then (the bull) will bring him luck.

अथ चान्दनसुरोदकाक्षताक्षतगोमयदूर्वास्त-म्बोदुम्बरपलाशशमीवैकङ्कताश्वत्थेन गोवालेनेति गाः प्रोक्षति वृषाणमेवाग्रे । शिवो भव शिवो भव । इत्यथ शिवो हैव भवति ७

8. ⁵ He then cooks that mess of sacrificial food, sacred to Kṣetrapati (the lord of the field), with milk, sprinkles it (with Ājya), takes it from the fire, and performs a sacrifice to Kṣetrapati on the path where his cows use to go, without a fire, on four or on seven leaves.

अथैनं क्षैत्रपत्यं पयसि स्थालीपाकं श्रपयित्वाभिघार्योद्वास्य गवां मार्गेनग्नौ क्षेत्रस्य पतिं यजति ८

9. He has him (i.e. the Kṣetrapati? an ox representing Kṣetrapati?) led (to his place) in the same way as the śūlagava (chap. 8, § 2).

चतुर्षु सप्तसु वा पलाशेषु तं तथैवावाहयति यथा शूलगवम् ९

10. ⁶ He sacrifices quickly, (for) the god has a strong digestion (?).

नूर्ते यजते । पाको देवः १०

11. He then performs worship with (the two verses), ‘With the lord of the field,’ ‘Lord of the field’ (Taitt. Saṃh. I, 1, 14, 2. 3).

अथोपतिष्ठते । क्षेत्रस्य पतिना वयं । क्षेत्रस्य पते । इति ११

12. Of (the remains of that sacrificial food) sacred to Kṣetrapati his uterine relations should partake, according as the custom of their family is.

End of the Third Paṭala.

अथैतस्य क्षैत्रपत्यस्य ये सनाभयो भवन्ति ते प्राश्नन्ति यथैवैषां कुलधर्मो भवति १२