Adhyāya III, Khaṇḍa 4

1^[1]. At the sacrifice to Vāstoṣpati—

2^[2]. Having established the (sacred) domestic fire outside with (the words), 'I place (here) Agni with genial mind; may he be the assembler of goods. Do no harm to us, to the old nor to the young; be a saviour to us, to men and animals!'—

3. Having put a new water-pot on fresh eastward-pointed Kuśa-grass,

4. And spoken over it (the words), 'Unhurt be our men, may our riches not be squandered!'—

5^[3]. He sacrifices three oblations in the forenoon with the Stotriya text of the Rathantara with repetition and Kakubh-forming;

6. (Three oblations with the Stotriya) of the Vāmadevya at midday;

7. Of the Bṛhat in the afternoon;

8. The four Mahāvyāhṛtis, the three verses, 'Vāstoṣpati!' (Rig-veda VII, 54, 1-3), (the single verses,) 'Driving away calamity,' (and) 'Vāstoṣpati, a firm post' (Rig-veda VII, 55, 1; VIII, 17, 14), and to (Agni) Sviṣṭakṛt a tenth oblation of cooked food at night.

9. Taking with himself his eldest son and his wife, carrying grain, let him enter (the house with the words),

'Indra's house is blessed, wealthy, protecting; that I enter with my wife, with offspring, with cattle, with increase of wealth, with everything that is mine.'

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

4, 1. The sacrifice to Vāstoṣpati is celebrated when the sacrificer enters his new house.

[2]:

Comp. above, I, 7, 9.

[3]:

On the way of reciting a Pragātha, so as to form three verses, see Indische Studien, VIII, 25; Zeitschrift der deutschen Morg. Gesellschaft, XXXVIII, 476. The Stotriya of the Rathantara is Rig-veda VII, 32, 22 seq.; that of the Vāmadevya, IV, 31, 1-3; that of the Bṛhat, VI, 46, 1 seq.