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GRIHYA-SOTRA OF HIRANYAKESIN.
6. The collyrium (he gives), saying three times, 'Anoint thy eyes, N. N.! Anoint thy eyes, N. N.!'
7. The salve, saying three times, 'Anoint thyself, N. N.! Anoint thyself, N. N.!'
8. With (the formula), “These garments are for you, O Fathers. Do not seize upon anything else that is ours,' he tears off a skirt (of his garment) or a flake of wool and puts that down (for the Fathers), if he is in the first half of his life.
9. He tears out some hairs of his body, if in the second half.
10. Then he washes the vessel (in which the food was of which he had offered the lumps), and sprinkles (the water with which he has washed it), from right to left round (the lumps) with (the Mantra), *These honey-sweet waters, bringing refreshment to children and grandchildren, giving sweet drink and ambrosia to the Fathers, the divine waters refresh both (the living and the dead), these rivers, abounding in water, covered with reeds, with beautiful bathing-places; may they flow up to you in yon world I' Then he turns the vessel over, crosses his hands so that the left hand becomes right and the right hand becomes left, and worships (the Fathers) with the formulas of adoration, 'Adoration to you, O Fathers, for the sake of sap' (Taitt. Samh. III, 2, 5, 5).
11. Then he goes to the brink of some water and pours down three handfuls of water (with the following Mantras):
6 seq. A fourth time he gives the same thing silently; comp. Sätra 3.
8, 9. If his age is under fisty years or over fifty years (Mátridatta; comp. the commentary on Katyayana-Sraut. IV, 1, 17. 18).
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