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III ADHYAYA, 4 KHANDA, 8.
8. 'Day and night the two door-jambs!'
9. 'The year the roof!'
10. With (the verse), 'A bull, an ocean' (Rig-veda V, 47, 3) let him bury an anointed stone under the pinnacle.
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KHANDA 4.
1. At the sacrifice to Vâstoshpati—
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 eastwardpointed Kusa-grass,
4. And spoken over it (the words), 'Unhurt be our men, may our riches not be squandered !'—
5. 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 Vâmadevya at midday;
7. Of the Brihat in the afternoon;
8. The four Mahâvyâhritis, the three verses, 'Vâstoshpati!' (Rig-veda VII, 54, 1-3), (the single verses,) 'Driving away calamity,' (and) 'Vâstoshpati,
4, 1. The sacrifice to Vâstoshpati is celebrated when the sacrificer enters his new house.
2. Comp. above, I, 7, 9.
5-7. On the way of reciting a Pragatha, 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 Vâmadevya, IV, 31, 1-3; that of the Brihat, VI, 46, I seq.
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