Sanskrit verses with English translation from Rama Daivajna. Read the full classical treatise on AstroFusion Learning.
गणनायकमाराघ्य नीलकण्ठं गुरुं तथा । अग्निहोत्रप्रकरणं व्याख्याति विदुषा मुदे ॥१॥
gaṇanāyakam ārādhya nīlakaṇṭhaṃ guruṃ tathā| agnihotraprakaraṇaṃ vyākhyāti viduṣā mude||1||
Having propitiated Gaṇanāyaka (Gaṇeśa) and Nīlakaṇṭha (Śiva), the preceptor expounds, to the delight of the learned, the Agnihotra (fire-kindling) Prakaraṇa. [Joshi ed., print p.436, OCR-corrected]
केचित्पाणिग्रहणसमये एवाग्न्याधानमाहुः । आवसथ्याधानं दारकाले दायाद्यकाले एकेषामिति पारस्करः ॥
kecit pāṇigrahaṇasamaye evāgnyādhānam āhuḥ| āvasathyādhānaṃ dārakāle dāyādyakāle ekeṣām iti pāraskaraḥ||
AGNYĀDHĀNA timing-gate dispute: some teachers place the fire-establishment at the very PAĀNIGRAHAṆA moment of the wedding; others at the family PARTITION (vibhāga) held together with father and brothers. Pāraskara's śruti supplies the register — 'Establishment of the āvasathya fire [falls] at wife-taking time; for some, at inheritance (dāyādya) time' — and Maheśvara concurs: enjoined at wife-taking time, and equally at partition time. Where such a śrauta event-anchor governs, no separate muhūrta search is undertaken. [Joshi ed., print p.436, OCR-corrected]
वसन्ते ब्राह्मणोऽग्नीनाधीत ग्रीष्मे राजन्यः शरदि वैश्यो वर्षासु रथकार आदधीत । सोमेन यक्ष्यमाणो न प्रतीक्षेत नक्षत्रमित्यापस्तम्बः ॥
vasante brāhmaṇo 'gnīn ādhīta grīṣme rājanyaḥ śaradi vaiśyo varṣāsu rathakāra ādadhīta| somena yakṣyamāṇo na pratīkṣeta nakṣatram ity āpastambaḥ||
Varṇa-season gate (cited śruti): the Brāhmaṇa kindles his fires in SPRING, the Rājanya in SUMMER, the Vaiśya in AUTUMN, and the Rathakāra in the RAINS. For the Soma-sacrificer Āpastamba relaxes all star-waiting: 'One about to offer with Soma need not wait for a nakṣatra.' A further school holds simply the day of ŚRADDHODAYA (completion of the śrāddha) as the moment of establishment. [Joshi ed., print p.436, OCR-corrected]
धनू राशि का वृहस्पति या मेष राशिस्थ मंगल लग्न में हो अथवा लग्न से मंगल १० वे या ७ वें हो अथवा ३, ६, ११ में चन्द्रमा वा सूर्य हों तो अग्निहोत्र कर्ता दीर्घ समय तक ज्योतिष्टोमादि याग करता है ॥३॥
dhanū rāśi kā bṛhaspati yā meṣa rāśistha maṅgala lagna meṃ ho athavā lagna se maṅgala dasaveṃ yā sātveṃ ho athavā 3, 6, 11 meṃ candramā vā sūrya hoṃ to agnihotra kartā dīrgha samaya taka jyotiṣṭomādi yāga karatā hai||3||
FRUITS (verse 3, surviving only through Pītāmbarā's Hindi gloss — the Sanskrit mūla lies on missing print pp.437-439): if Jupiter stands in DHANUS, or Mars occupies MEṢA in/at the lagna, or Mars is 10th or 7th from the lagna, or Moon/Sun sit in the 3rd, 6th or 11th, the Agnihotra performer conducts Jyotiṣṭoma-class sacrifices for a LONG span of life. Chapter verdict (p.436 prose): where no fixed scriptural time applies, the muhūrta is examined solely to clear śukrāsta-type defects. [Joshi ed., print p.436/p.440, OCR-corrected]