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The water for this lustration of the king is brought
from the four oceans and from a hundred rivers.and is stored
in a hundred or a thousand pots made of gold, or of silver,
or of copper, or of earth. These pots are covered with
pieces of white cloth, and the herbs saha, sahadevi, bala,
atibal膩, madayanti etc. are put into them. The pots are
decorated with the leaves of various trees; and gold, jewels,
flowers and perfumes are put into those pots. The water in
those is consecrated with the mantras: s盲vitri sam no
33 32
devi and hiranyavarnah ..34. The holy grass (d奴rv膩)
is then spread on the earth and over that is placed a throne
made of gold or of silver. On this throne are spread the
skins of a bull, a tiger, a lion and a deer respectively one
over the other (5.1.2-3.1).
The Purohita, who has lived only on milk, clarified
butter and fruits for seven nights offers, in the company
of four learned Brahma峁嘺s, cow's milk on the sacred fire with
a golden sruva. The verses at the beginning of the Vedas
and from the sarma-varma (32.14); the aparajita (32.13) the
ayu峁�ya (32.9) the abhaya (32.12,29) and the svastyayana
(32.11) ganas are employed in this connection 鲁 (5.3.2-5).
(32) RV III.62.10.
(33) AV I.6.1.
(34) AV I.33.1.
35 (35) Varahamihira (BS 48.18-33) has much elaborated this
ceremony. According to him, the King goes out of the
town the previous night towards the east or the north
and makes a number of offerings. He stays there the
whole night and worships the next day Mother Earth and
other divinities.