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II PRAPATHAKA, 6 KÂNDIKÂ, II.
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'If thou belongest to Soma, I buy thee for the king Soma.
'If thou belongest to Varuna, I buy thee for the king Varuna.
'If thou belongest to the Vasus, I buy thee for the Vasus.
If thou belongest to the Rudras, I buy thee for the Rudras.
'If thou belongest to the Âdityas, I buy thee for the Ådityas.
If thou belongest to the Maruts, I buy thee for the Maruts.
'If thou belongest to the Visve devâs, I buy thee for the Visve devâs.'
8. He should set it up with (the Mantra), 'Ye herbs, being well-minded, bestow strength on this (shoot); for it will do its work.' Then he should put grass around it, should take it, and place it in the open air.
9. Having washed a nether mill-stone, a student or a (wife) addicted (to her husband), a person who is a Brahmana by birth (only and not by learning), or a girl, pounds (that Nyagrodha shoot) without moving backward (the stone with which she pounds it).
10. In the morning, after she has been washed, sitting on northward-pointed Darbha grass, (all over her body), including her head, she lies down to the west of the fire on northward-pointed Darbha grass, with her head to the east.
II. Her husband, standing behind her, should seize (the pounded Nyagrodha shoot) with the
these sections he should, according to the commentary, give three barley corns or beans to the owner of the Nyagrodha tree, or put them down at the root of the tree.
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