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GRIHYA-SOTRA OF HIRANYAKESIN.
Devoured is thirst; devoured is the gadfly; devoured is the stinging worm.'
6. He takes a water-pot and a handful of Darbha grass, goes forth, his face turned towards the east, spreads the Darbha grass out with its points towards the east, and makes four Bali-offerings on that (grass) with (the formulas), “To the terrestrial Serpents I offer this Bali,' To the aerial, &c.; to the celestial, &c.; to the Serpents dwelling in the quarters (of the world),' &c.
7. Having given there collyrium and (other) salve (to the Serpents), he worships them with the Mantras, ' Adoration be to the Serpents' (Taitt. Samhita IV, 2, 8, 3).
8. He should take a water-pot and should at that distance in which he wishes the serpents not to approach, three times walk round his house, turning his right side towards it, and should sprinkle water round it with the formulas), 'Beat away, O white one, with thy foot, with the fore-foot and with the hind-foot, these seven human females and the three (daughters) of the king's tribe.
Within the dominion of the white one the Serpent has killed nobody. To the white one, the son of Vidarva, adoration !
'Adoration to the white one, the son of Vidarva!'
9. Then he worships the Serpents towards the different regions, one by one with (the corresponding section of) these Mantras, 'The convergent one thou art called, the eastern region' (Taitt. Samh. V, 5, 10, I seq.).
8. Comp. Påraskara II, 14, 19. In the first Mantra I read râgabåndhavíh; comp. the note on Pår. II, 14, 4.
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