धाराहोमःThe offering in streams
Verse 40
पृथिव्यां दक्षिणं जानु पातयित्वा स्रुवे स्रुचा । घृतमादाय मतिमांश्चिन्तयन् हितमात्मनः । ह्रीँ विष्णवे द्विठान्तेन प्रदद्यादाहुतित्रयम् ॥ ४० ॥
pṛthivyāṁ dakṣiṇaṁ jānu pātayitvā sruvē srucā | ghṛtamādāya matimāṁścintayan hitamātmanaḥ | hrīm̐ viṣṇavē dviṭhāntēna pradadyādāhutitrayam || 40 ||
Translation
resting his right knee on the ground and taking ghee into the small ladle with the large, the wise one, thinking of his own good, should offer three oblations with "hrīṁ viṣṇave" ending in dviṭha.
Word by word
- pṛthivyāṁ
- on the ground
- dakṣiṇaṁ
- right
- jānu
- knee
- pātayitvā
- having rested
- sruvē
- into the small ladle
- srucā
- with the large ladle
- ghṛtam
- (ghṛtam) ghee
- ādāya
- having taken
- matimāṁś
- (matimān) the wise one
- cintayan
- thinking of
- hitam
- (hitam) the good
- ātmanaḥ
- of himself
- hrīm̐
- hrīṁ
- viṣṇavē
- to Viṣṇu
- dviṭha
- dviṭha, svāhā
- antēna
- ending with
- pradadyāt
- (pradadyāt) he should offer
- āhuti
- oblations
- trayam
- three
Meaning
Kneeling on the right knee, he fills the sruva with ghee by means of the sruc and gives three offerings. "Dviṭha", "two ṭhas", is the code name of svāhā (written with two characters that look like ṭha). The mantra is "hrīṁ viṣṇave svāhā", "hrīṁ, to Viṣṇu, svāhā". These three oblations open the dhārā-homa.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 39.