Aitareyabrahmana 2.19: adhyāya 8, khaṇḍaḥ 1-6

2.19

ṛṣayo vai Sarasvatyāṃ satram āsata. te Kavaṣam Ailūṣaṃ somād anayan:
dāsyāḥ putraḥ kitavo 'brāhmaṇaḥ kathaṃ no madhye 'dīkṣiṣṭeti.
tam bahir dhanvodavahann: atrainam pipāsā hantu,
Sarasvatyā udakam mā pād īti.
sa bahir dhanvodūḷhaḥ pipāsayā vitta etad aponaptrīyam apaśyat:
pra devatrā brahmaṇe gātur etv iti, tenāpām priyaṃ dhāmopāgachat.
tam āpo 'nūdāyaṃs, taṃ Sarasvatī samantam paryadhāvat
tasmād dhāpy etarhi Parisārakam ity ācakṣate,
yad enaṃ Sarasvatī samantam parisasāra
te vā ṛṣayo 'bruvan: vidur vā imāṃ deva, upemaṃ hvayāmahā iti.
tatheti. tam upahvayanta, tam upahūyaitad aponaptrīyam akurvata:
pra devatrā brahmaṇe gātur etv iti,
tenāpām priyaṃ dhāmopāgachann upa devānām
upāpām priyaṃ dhāma gachaty upa devānāṃ,
jayati paramaṃ lokaṃ ya evam veda
yaś caivaṃ vidvān etad aponaptrīyaṃ kurute
tat saṃtatam anubrūyāt
saṃtatavarṣī ha prajābhyaḥ parjanyo bhavati
yatraivaṃ vidvāin etat saṃtatam anvāha
yad avagrāham anubrūyāj, jīmūtavarṣī ha prajābhyaḥ parjanyaḥ syāt.
tasmāt tat saṃtatam evānūcyaṃ
tasya triḥ prathamāṃ saṃtatam anvāha,
tenaiva tat sarvaṃ saṃtatam anūktam bhavati

ii. 19 (viii. 1). The seers performed a sacrificial season on the Sarasvatī; they drove away Kavaṣa Ailūṣa from the Soma, ‘The child of a slave woman, a cheat, no Brahman; how has he been consecrated in our midst?’ They sent him out to the desert, (saying) ‘There let thirst slay him; let him drink not the water of the Sarasvatī.’ He sent away to the wilderness, afflicted by thirst, saw the ‘child of the waters’ hymn, ‘Forth among the gods let there be speeding for the Brahman.’ Thereby he went to the dear abode of the waters; him the waters welled out after; all around him Sarasvatī hastened. Therefore they call it here Parisāraka, in that Sarasvatī went all around him. The seers said ‘The gods know him; let us summon him.’ ‘Be it so’ (they replied). They summoned him; having summoned him they performed this ‘child of the waters’ (hymn), ‘Forth among the gods let there be speeding for the Brahman’; therewith they went to the dear home of the waters, of the gods. He goes to the dear home of the waters, of the gods; he conquers the highest world who knows thus, and he who knowing thus performs the ‘child of the waters’ (hymn). It he should recite continuously; Parjanya comes to rain continuously for

offspring when one knowing thus recites this continuously. If he were to recite with divisions, then Parjanya would rain with clouds for offspring; therefore should it be recited continuously only. Of it he recites the first (verse) thrice continuously; verily thereby the whole is continuously recited.