The holy rites of fire pertaining to Śiva - Verse 66
Linga Purana (GRETIL / Wisdomlib) · 2 · Verse 25.66
Sanskrit Original
निरीक्षणं प्रोक्षणं ताडनं च षष्ठेन फडन्तेन अभ्युक्षणं चतुर्थेन खननोत्किरणं षष्ठेन पूरणं समीकरणमाद्येन सेचनं वौषडन्तेन कृट्टनं षष्ठेन संमार्जनोपलेपने तुरीयेण कुण्डपरिकल्पनं निवृत्त्या त्रिभिरेव कुण्डपरिधानं चतुर्थेन कुण्डार्चनमाद्येन रेखाचतुष्टयसपादनं षष्ठेन फडन्तेन वज्रीकरणं चतुष्पदापादनमाद्येन एवं कुण्डसंस्कारमष्टादशविधम।।
nirīkṣaṇaṃ prokṣaṇaṃ tāḍanaṃ ca ṣaṣṭhena phaḍantena abhyukṣaṇaṃ caturthena khananotkiraṇaṃ ṣaṣṭhena pūraṇaṃ samīkaraṇamādyena secanaṃ vauṣaḍantena kṛṭṭanaṃ ṣaṣṭhena saṃmārjanopalepane turīyeṇa kuṇḍaparikalpanaṃ nivṛttyā tribhireva kuṇḍaparidhānaṃ caturthena kuṇḍārcanamādyena rekhācatuṣṭayasapādanaṃ ṣaṣṭhena phaḍantena vajrīkaraṇaṃ catuṣpadāpādanamādyena evaṃ kuṇḍasaṃskāramaṣṭādaśavidham||
Śailādi said: The rites of surveying (sprinkling) and beating shall be performed by means of the sixth Bīja mantra ending with Phaṭ; the rite of sprinkling by means of the fourth Bīja mantra, the rites of digging and scattering upwards by means of the sixth Bīja mantra; the rites of filling and levelling by means of the first Bīja mantra; the rite of watering by means of the mantra ending with Vauṣaṭ; the rite of thrashing by means of the sixth Bīja mantra, the rite of sweeping by means of the fourth Bīja mantra; the rite of conceiving the sacrificial pit by means of the three Kalās beginning with Nivṛtti; the rite of covering up the sacrificial pit by means of the fourth Bīja mantra; the rite of worshipping the sacrificial pit by means of the first Bīja mantra; the rite of accomplishing the four lines by means of the sixth Bīja mantra ending with Phaṭ and the rites of rendering it adamantine and endowed with four feet by means of the first Bīja mantra. Thus the consecration of the sacrificial pit is of eighteen varieties.