Aitareyabrahmana 1.19

1.19

brahma jajñānam prathamam purastād iti pratipadyate.
brahma vai Bṛhaspatir, brahmaṇaivainaṃ tad bhiṣajyatī/yaṃ
vai pitre rāṣṭry ety agra iti. vāg vai rāṣṭrī,
vācam evāsmiṃs tad dadhāti
mahān mahī astabhāyad vi jāta iti brāhmaṇaspatyā.
brahma vai Bṛhaspatir, brahmaṇaivainaṃ tad bhiṣajyaty
abhi tyaṃ devaṃ savitāram oṇyor iti sāvitrī.
prāṇo vai Savitā, prāṇam evasmiṃs tad dadhāti
saṃ sīdasva mahāṅ asīty evainaṃ samasādayanu
añjanti yam prathayanto na viprā ity ajyamānāyābhirūpā.
yad yajñe 'bhirūpam tat samṛddham
pataṃgam aktam asurasya māyayā, yo naḥ sanutyo abhidāsad agne,
bhavā no agne sumanā upetāv iti dve-dve abhirūpe.
yad yajñe 'bhirūpaṃ tat samṛddhaṃ
kṛṇusnva pājaḥ prasitiṃ na pṛthvīm iti pañca rākṣoghnyo,
rakṣasām apahatyai
pari tvā girvaṇo giro, 'dhi dvayor adadhā ukthyaṃ vacaḥ,
śukraṃ te anyad yajataṃ te anyad,
apaśyaṃ gopām anipadyamānam iti catasra ekapātinyas
tā ekaviṃśatir bhavanty
ekaviṃśo 'yam puruṣo:
daśa hastyā aṅgulayo daśa pādyā
ātmaikaviṃśaś tam imam ātmānam ekaviṃśaṃ saṃskurute

i. 19 (iv. 2). With 'The holy power born first in the east' he begins; Bṛhaspati is the holy power; verily thus with the holy power he heals him. 'This royal one goeth in front to the father' (he says ); the royal one is speech; verily thus he places speech in him. 'The great one hath established the two great ones, when born' is addressed to Brahmaṇaspati; Bṛhaspati is the holy power; verily thus with the holy power he heals him. 'Towards the god Savitṛ in the bowls' is addressed to Savitṛ; Savitṛ is breath; verily thus he places breath in him. With 'Sit thou down; thou art great' they make him sit down. 'Whom they anoint, the sages, as it were extending' is (the verse ) appropriate for the anointing; that which is appropriate in the sacrifice is perfect. 'The bird anointed by the skill of the Asura', 'The foe who secretly may attack us, O Agni', and 'Be thou well disposed to us, O Agni, at our approach' are sets of two appropriate (verses ); that which in the sacrifice is appropriate is perfect. 'Make thou thy brilliance like a broad net', (these) are

five (verses ) referring to the slaying of Rakṣases, for the smiting away of the Rakṣases. ‘Round thee, O singer, the songs’, ‘In the two hast thou placed the word of praise’, ‘Pure is one of them, worthy of sacrifice one’ and ‘I saw the guardian never resting’ are four isolated (verses ). They make up twenty-one; man here is twenty-onefold, ten fingers, ten toes, and the body as the twenty-first; this twenty-onefold self he prepares.