धाराहोमःThe offering in streams
Verse 41
तथैव घृतमादाय ध्यायन् देवं प्रजापतिम् । वायव्यादग्निकोणान्तं जुहुयादाज्यधारया ॥ ४१ ॥
tathaiva ghṛtamādāya dhyāyan dēvaṁ prajāpatim | vāyavyādagnikōṇāntaṁ juhuyādājyadhārayā || 41 ||
Translation
Taking ghee in the same way and meditating on the god Prajāpati, he should offer a stream of ghee from the north-west to the south-east corner.
Word by word
- tathā
- likewise
- ēva
- just
- ghṛtam
- (ghṛtam) ghee
- ādāya
- having taken
- dhyāyan
- meditating on
- dēvaṁ
- the god
- prajāpatim
- (prajāpatim) Prajāpati
- vāyavyāt
- (vāyavyāt) from the north-west
- agni
- Agni's
- kōṇa
- corner (the south-east)
- antaṁ
- to
- juhuyāt
- (juhuyāt) he should offer
- ājya
- of ghee
- dhārayā
- with a stream
Meaning
The dhārā, "stream", gives the homa its name: the ghee is poured in an unbroken line across the fire, here from the north-west (Vāyu's corner) to the south-east (Agni's corner), with the mantra "hrīṁ prajāpataye svāhā", as the commentary supplies.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Tathaiva" and the rest. In the same way, taking ghee with the sruc into the sruva, meditating on the god Prajāpati, he should offer for him a stream of ghee from the north-west (vāyavya) corner to the south-east corner of Agni, with the name mantra that begins with the seed hrīṁ, has the name in the dative and ends with svāhā (hrīṁ prajāpataye svāhā).