धाराहोमःThe offering in streams
Verse 42
पुनराज्यं समादाय ध्यायन्देवं पुरन्दरम् । नैर्ऋतादीशकोणान्तं जुहुयादाज्यधारया ॥ ४२ ॥
punarājyaṁ samādāya dhyāyandēvaṁ purandaram | nairṛtādīśakōṇāntaṁ juhuyādājyadhārayā || 42 ||
Translation
Taking ghee again and meditating on the god Purandara, he should offer a stream of ghee from the south-west to the north-east corner.
Word by word
- punaḥ
- (punaḥ) again
- ājyaṁ
- ghee
- samādāya
- having taken
- dhyāyan
- (dhyāyan) meditating on
- dēvaṁ
- the god
- purandaram
- Purandara (Indra)
- nairṛtāt
- (nairṛtāt) from the south-west
- īśa
- Īśa's
- kōṇa
- corner (the north-east)
- antaṁ
- to
- juhuyāt
- (juhuyāt) he should offer
- ājya
- of ghee
- dhārayā
- with a stream
Meaning
A second stream crosses the first, from the south-west (Nirṛti's corner) to the north-east (Īśa's corner), for Purandara, Indra, "destroyer of strongholds": "hrīṁ purandarāya svāhā". The two streams make a cross over the fire.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
"Punaḥ" and the rest. Again taking ghee with the sruc into the sruva, meditating on the god Purandara (Indra), he should offer for him a stream of ghee from the south-west (nairṛta) corner to the north-east (īśāna) corner, with the name mantra beginning with the seed hrīṁ, in the dative and ending with svāhā (hrīṁ purandarāya svāhā).