Mayamatam मयमतम् - chapter-8 OFFERINGS
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Mayamatam मयमतम् 

TREATISE OF HOUSING, ARCHITECTURE AND ICONOGRAPHY
by bruno dagens, Authentic book on ancient vastu sastra


अथाष्टमोऽध्यायः 
CHAPTER 8


[ बलिकर्म ]

'देवानां स्वपदस्थानां' बलिकर्म विधीयते । सामान्याहत्यमार्गेण ब्रह्मादीनां यथाक्रमम् ॥ १॥

[ आहत्यबलिः ]

गन्धमाल्यैश्च धूपेन पयसा मधुसर्पिषा । पायसौदनलाजैश्च ब्रह्मस्थानं समर्चयेत् ॥ २ ॥ आर्यके फलभक्ष्यं स्यान्माषान्नं* च तिलानि च । विवस्वति विनिक्षिप्तं दधि दूर्वा' च मित्रके ॥ ३ ॥ 'महीधरे भवेद् दुग्धमेवमन्तर्बलिः स्मृतः १० । पर्जन्यस्याज्यमैन्द्रस्य" नवनीतं " सपुष्पकम् ॥ ॥ ४ ॥ 
"इन्द्रे कोष्ठं च पुष्पं "च मधु कन्दाश्च भास्करे" । सत्यके मधुकं दद्याद् भृशाय" नवनीतकम् ॥ ५ ॥ माषं रजनिचूर्णं च गगनस्य बलिं ददेत्" । दुग्धाज्यं तगरं" वह्नेः शिम्बान्नं पूष्णि" पायसम् ॥ ६ ॥
कङ्क्वन्नं वितथे" शीधु" राक्षसे बलिरिष्यते । शिम्बान्नं कुसरं याम्ये गन्धर्वेऽखिलगन्धकम् ॥ ७ ॥


भृङ्गराजेऽब्धिमत्स्यः स्यान्मृषे“ मत्स्यौदनं” विदुः । निर्ऋतौ तैलपिण्याकं 28 बीजं दौवारिके बलिः ॥ ८ ॥ 
सुग्रीवे मोदकं” पुष्पदन्तके॰ पुष्पतोयकम् । 3'वरुणे पायसं धान्यं2 शोणितेनासुरे बलिः ॥ ९ ॥ सतिलं तण्डुलं शोषे रोगे स्याच्छुष्कमत्स्यकम्” । 33 34स्विन्नं 35 हारिद्रकं 36 वायौ नागे मद्यं च लाजकम् ॥ १० ॥ 37 धान्यचूर्णं हि मुख्यस्य दधि सर्पिश्च सम्मतम् । 3गुलौदनं तु भल्लाटे सोमे दुग्धौदनं॰ ददेत्” ॥ ११ ॥ 
शुष्कमांसं मृगे दद्याद् देवमातरि 2 मोदकम् 3 । उदितौ तिलभक्ष्येण क्षीरानं सर्पिरीशके ॥ १२ ॥ 
लाजं धान्यं सविन्द्रस्य " साविन्द्रे'S गन्धतोयकम् । बस्तमेदस्तथा मुद्गचूर्णमिन्द्रेन्द्रराजयोः ॥ १३ ॥ 
 रुद्रे रुद्रजये मांस स्विन्नमापापवत्सयोः । कुमुदं मत्स्यमांसं च शङ्खकच्छपमांसकम् ॥ १४॥ 
मद्यमाज्यं चरक्यास्तु विदार्या लवणो बलिः । पूतनायास्तिलं पिष्टमन्याया मुद्गसारकम् ॥ १५ ॥
[ साधारणबलिः ]

साधारणबलिः शुद्धभोजनं सधृतं दधि । सर्वेषामपि देवानां गन्धादीनि ददेत् क्रमात्" ॥ १६ ॥

कन्यका वाऽथ वेश्या वा बलिधारणयोग्यकाः । अङ्गन्यासकरन्यासैः पूतचेता” यथाक्रमम् ॥ १७ ॥ ओङ्कारादिनमोन्तेन स्वस्वनामाभिधाय च ।

दत्वा पूर्वं जलं' पश्चात् साधारणबलिं ददेत् ॥ १८ ॥ “तत्तद्योग्यबलिं पश्चाद् देयं” तोयं तथा “ बुधैः ।

ग्रामादीनां तु मण्डूकपदे” परमशायिके ॥ १९ ॥

सन्तर्प्य देवता ह्येवं पूर्वोक्तविधिना क्रमात्” । विसर्जयेत् ततो देवान् विन्यासार्थं तु मन्त्रवत्” ॥ २० ॥
 ब्रह्माणं बाह्यदेवांश्च तत्तदुक्तपदे न्यसेत् ।

"देवालयविधानार्थं द्वारार्थं 2 ते प्रकीर्तिताः ॥ २१ ॥ शेषाश्च निष्पदाः सर्वे रक्षार्थं तु निवेशिताः । एवं ग्रामादिषु प्रोक्तं रहस्यमिदमीरितम् ॥ २२ ॥

कृतोपवासः स्थपतिः प्रभाते विशुद्धदेहोऽविकलं गृहीत्वा ।

विशेषसामान्यबलिं सुराणां यथोक्तनीत्या विदधीत सम्यक् ॥ २३ ॥

इति मयमते वस्तुशास्त्रे बलिकर्मविधानो नाम अष्टमोऽध्यायः




It is prescribed that offerings should be made to each god in his own place; individual and common offerings are made starting with that to Brahmä.²

Individual offerings

The place of Brahma is to be honoured with perfumes and garlands, incense, milk, honey and ghee, rice boiled in milk and roasted rice. The offering at the place of Aryaka is a cake of fruits as well as cooked beans and sesame seeds. Curd is prescribed for Vivasvant, durva grass for Mitra and for Mahidhara, milk. These are the offerings to the (gods) of the interior.

(At the place of) Parjanya the offering should be clarified butter and at that of Aindra, fresh butter and flowers. Entrails and flowers are the offerings for Indra, honey and onions for Bhaskara and, for Satyaka, honey. Fresh butter is offered to Bhrsa; the offering to Gagana is beans and orpiment, that to Vahni, milk, ghee and tagara powder and the offering to Puşan is vegetables and milk. An offering of cooked kanku is prescribed for Vitatha, one of intoxicating juice for Räksasa, of vegetables and boiled rice for Yama and, for Gandharva, an offering of pure perfume.



Sea fish is offered to Bhrgaraja and rice with fish to Mrsa. A sesame oil cake is offered to Nirrti" and a seed (of sesame) to Dauvärika, a cake is offered to Sugriva and, to Puspadanta, flowers and water. Rice and milk is the offering intended for Varuna and, for Asura, blood. The offering to Sosa should be rice with sesame, to Roga, dried fish, to Väyu, fat and orpiment and to Näga, wine and roasted rice. Flour, curds and ghee should be offered to Mukhya, to Bhallata, cooked rice with molasses and, to Soma, milk rice. Dried meat is to be offered to Mrga, cake to the Mother of the gods, sesame rice to Uditi and rice and ghee to Išaka.

Roasted rice is required for Savindra and perfumed water for Sävindra, for Indra and Indraraja, goat's fat and crushed beans, for Rudra and Rudrajaya, meat and fat and, for Apa and Apavatsa, lotus and the flesh of shellfish and tortoise.

The offering to Caraki is wine and roasted rice, to Vidări it is salt, to Putana, pista and, to the last (who is Paparakṣasi), bean water.

The common offering

5-17 All the gods in succession should then be presented with the common offering which consists of pure food with ghee and curds and

Elsewbere Pitt.

7. Aditi is the mother of the gods.


of perfumes (etc.). A young girl or a courtesan should be called to carry the offerings; she will first have purified her mind by means of impositions on limbs and hands.

After each deity has been hailed by name with a formula beginning 'OM' and ending 'NAMAS' and after water has been offered, the common offering should be made and then that appropriate to each god; next water is again offered. It is thus that the sages proceed at the time of the founding of villages and other settlements, using manduka or paramaśayin diagrams.?

The gods being appeased thus one after the other, according to the ritual, they should be dismissed with a formula in order that the layout of the construction may be set up.

Brahma and the exterior deities are to be installed, each in his place; (their positions) are intended for temples and gateways.10 The others, and all those without specific positions, are assigned to protect the site, 

The secret ritual pertaining to villages... etc. has thus been revealed.

At dawn, the architect, having fasted, purified his mind and under stood all things, must apportion amongst the gods the common and particular offerings according to the rules given above.

Thus ends, in the Mayamata, treatise on dwelling, the eighth chapter: RULES FOR OFFERINGS.

Manish Jain Luhadia 
B.Arch (hons.), M.Plan
Email: manish@frontdesk.co.in
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