Śāṅkhāyana (Kauṣītaki) Āraṇyaka 1.5

1.5

ŚĀ 1,4
athaitā ājyāhutīr juhoti | svastyayanam eva tat kurute | yajñasyaiva śāntyai yajamānānāṃ ca bhiṣajyāyai | tā vā aṣṭau bhavanti | etābhir vai devāḥ sarvā aṣṭīr āśnuvata | tatho evaitad yajamānā etābhir eva sarvā aṣṭīr aśnuvate | athaitān parisādāñ japāñ japati | parimādaḥ - āpo vai parimādaḥ | adbhir hīdaṃ sarvaṃ parimattam | atha vai parimādaḥ | annam etad uktham | āpo vā annasyāyataḥ pūrvā āyanti, āpaḥ parimādaḥ | atha vai parimādo yan nakhāni dantās tanūr lomānīti | tasmāt kṛtyāḥ saṃpadvatyo hi bhavanti | pañcaviṃśatir nidhanam | āṅgirasaṃ pratiṣṭhāyaiḥ tadrūpam, bhūtacchandāṃ sāma priyam indrasya dhāmopajagāmeti; krośānukrośe, arātsuḥ; apyeṣāṃ payaḥ, arātsuḥ; arkaṃ cārkapuṣpaṃ ca | ayaṃ vā agnirarkaḥ | asāvādityo 'rkapuṣpam | teṣu yadā paryāyaṃ sāmagāḥ stuvate, atha hotāram āhur anujapeti | te yadi stuvīran athānujapet | yadi
caivaṃ stuvīran yadi ca stuvīran anveva japet ||

ŚĀ 1.4
Then he offers these oblations of clarified butter. He thereby performs a rite of well-being, for the pacification of the sacrifice and for the healing of the sacrificers. They are eight. Through these the gods obtained all attainments; similarly the sacrificers obtain all attainments through them. Then he mutters these muttered prayers of the parimād recitations. The parimād recitations: the parimād recitations are the waters, for by the waters all this is surrounded and drunk. Further, the parimād recitations: this recitation is food; the waters come beforehand to the coming of food; the waters are the parimād recitations. Further, the parimād recitations are the nails, the teeth, the bodies, the hairs. Therefore, they are rites of action, for they are endowed with attainment. The cadence is twenty-five-fold. It has the form of the Āṅgirasa for establishment: 'With metres consisting of creatures, the sāman has approached the dear domain of Indra'; 'at the shout and counter-shout, they have succeeded'; 'and their milk, they have succeeded'; 'the arka and the arka-flower'. This Agni is the arka; yonder sun is the arka-flower. When the Sāman-singers chant the round over them, they then tell the Hotṛ: 'Mutter along!' If they chant, he should then mutter along. Whether they chant in this way or [otherwise] chant, he should simply mutter along.