स्थण्डिलरचनम्, अग्निस्थापनम्Making the altar; installing the fire
Verse 19
इत्थं प्रतिष्ठितं वह्निं पाणिभ्यामात्मसम्मुखम् । उद्धृत्य तासु रेखासु मायाद्यां व्याहृतिं स्मरन् ॥ १९ ॥
itthaṁ pratiṣṭhitaṁ vahniṁ pāṇibhyāmātmasammukham | uddhṛtya tāsu rēkhāsu māyādyāṁ vyāhṛtiṁ smaran || 19 ||
Translation
Lifting with both hands the fire so installed, so that it faces him, and remembering the vyāhṛti that begins with māyā, he should set it on those lines;
Word by word
- itthaṁ
- thus
- pratiṣṭhitaṁ
- installed
- vahniṁ
- the fire
- pāṇibhyām
- (pāṇibhyām) with both hands
- ātma
- himself
- sammukham
- (sammukham) facing
- uddhṛtya
- having lifted
- tāsu
- on those
- rēkhāsu
- lines
- māyā
- māyā (hrīṁ)
- ādyāṁ
- beginning with
- vyāhṛtiṁ
- the vyāhṛti
- smaran
- remembering
Meaning
The fire, now freed of the hostile share, is lifted with both hands and placed on the three lines, facing the performer. Meanwhile he remembers "the vyāhṛti preceded by māyā": hrīṁ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ. The vyāhṛtis, bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ and svaḥ, name the earth, the middle region and heaven; the Vedic worshipper says oṁ before them, the Tāntrika of the Kali age says hrīṁ, seeing the three worlds as the manifest form of the Goddess.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Ittham" and the rest. The fire installed and consecrated in this way he lifts with both hands, remembering the vyāhṛti preceded by māyā, that is preceded by the seed hrīṁ (hrīṁ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ), and sets it on those lines so that it faces himself; then he makes the fire blaze up with grass and wood, offers into that fire (hutāśana) two kindling sticks (samidh) smeared with ghee, gives the fire the name laid down for his own rite, and meditates on the fire as Dhanañjaya.