Aitareyabrahmana 2.14

2.14

sā vā eṣāmṛtāhutir eva yad vapāhutir,
amṛtāhutir agnyāhutir, amṛtāhutir ājyāhutir, amṛtāhutiḥ somāhutir.
etā vā aśarīrā ahutayo. yā vai kāścāśarīra āhutayo,
'mṛtatvam eva tābhir yajamāno jayati
sā vā eṣā reta eva yad vapā. preva vai reto līyate preva vapā līyate,
śuklaṃ vai retaḥ śukla vapāśarīraṃ vai reto 'śarīrā vapā.
yad vai lohitaṃ yan māṃsaṃ, tac charīraṃ.
tasmād brūyāḍ: yāvad alohitaṃ tāvat parivāsayeti
sā pañcāvattā bhavati. yady api caturavattī yajamānaḥ syād,
atha pañcāvattaiva vapā/jyasyopastṛṇāti,
hiraṇyaśalko,
vapā, hiraṇyaśalka, ājyasyopariṣṭād abhighārayati
tad āhur: yad dhiraṇyaṃ na vidyeta kathaṃ syad iti.
dvir ājyasyopastīrya vapām avadāya dvir upariṣṭād abhighārayaty
amṛtaṃ vā ājyam, amṛtaṃ hiraṇyaṃ. tatra sa kāma upāpto ya ājye,
tatra sa kāma upāpto yo hiraṇye. tat pañca sampadyante
pāṅkto 'yam puruṣaḥ pañcadhā vihito: lomāni tvaṅ māṃsam asthi majjā.
sa yāvān eva puruṣas tāvantaṃ yajamānaṃ saṃskṛtyāgnau devayonyāṃ juhoty.
Agnir vai devayoniḥ. so 'gner devayonyā āhutibhyaḥ sambhūya
hiraṇyaśarīra ūrdhvaḥ svargaṃ lokam eti

ii. 14 (vii. 4). The libation of the omentum is a libation of ambrosia; the Agni libation is a libation of ambrosia; the libation of butter is a libation of ambrosia; the libation of Soma is a libation of ambrosia. These are the incorporeal libations; with those libations which are incorporeal the sacrificer conquers immortality. The omentum is seed; seed disappears as it were, the omentum disappears as it were; seed is white, the omentum is white; seed is incorporeal, the omentum is incorporeal. The blood and the flesh are the body. Therefore should he say 'As much as is bloodless,

so much do thou cut off.’ (The offering) is made in five portions; even of the sacrifice is a four-portioner, still the omentum is made into five portions. He makes a basis of butter, a fragment of gold (comes next), the omentum, a fragment of gold; above he makes a layer of butter. They say ‘If there is no gold, how shall it be?’ Having made two bases of butter, having made a portion of the omentum, then he makes two layers of butter on the top; butter is ambrosia; gold is ambrosia; therein he obtains the desire which is in the butter, therein he obtains the desire which is in gold. They make up five; man is fivefold and disposed in five parts, hair, skin, flesh, bone, marrow. Having made ready the sacrifice in the same extent as is man, he offers in Agni as the birthplace of the gods; Agni is the birthplace of the gods; he having come into being from Agni as the birthplace of the gods, from the libation, with a body of gold, he goes aloft to the world of heaven.