[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Vedic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda) › [Brāhmaṇas (ritual exegesis)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana) › [Aitareyabrahmana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya) › 3.46 # Aitareyabrahmana 3.46 Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 3.46 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.3.46) trīṇi ha vai yajñe kriyante: jagdhaṃ gīrṇaṃ vāntaṃ tad dhaitad eva jagdhaṃ yad āśaṃsamṃnam ārtvijyaṃ kārayata: uta vā me dadyād uta vā mā vṛṇīteti. tad dha tat parāṅ eva yathā jagdhaṃ, na haiva tad yajamānam bhunakty atha haitad eva gīrṇaṃ yad bibhyad ārtvijyaṃ kārayata: uta vā mā na bādhetota vā me na yajñaveśaśāṃ kuryād iti. tad dha tat parāṅ eva yathā gīrṇaṃ, na haiva tad yajamānam bhunakty atha haitad eva vāntaṃ yad abhiśasyamānam ārtvijyaṃ kārayate. yathā ha vā idaṃ vāntān manuṣyā bībhatsanta, evam tasmād devās. tad dha tat parāṅ eva yathā vāntaṃ, na haiva tad yajamānam bhunakti sa eteṣāṃ trayāṇām āśām neyāt taṃ yady eteṣāṃ trayāṇām ekaṃcid akāmam abhyābhavet, tasyāsti vāmadevyasya stotre prāyaścittir idaṃ vā idaṃ vāmadevyaṃ yajamānaloko 'mṛtalokaḥ svargo lokas tat tribhir akṣarair nyūnaṃ. tasya stotra upasṛpya tredhātmānaṃ vigṛhṇīyāt: pu\_ru\_ṣa= iti sa eteṣu lokeṣv ātmānaṃ dadhāty: asmin yajamānaloke 'sminn amṛtaloke 'smin svarge loke, sa sarvāṃ duriṣṭim atyety api yadi samṛddhā iva ṛtvijaḥ syur, iti ha smāhātha haitaj japed eveti > iii. 46 (xv. 2). Three things are performed at the sacrifice, eating, swallowing, and vomiting. What is eaten is when he makes as priest one that expects 'May he give to me, or may he choose me.' That is remote like something eaten; that does not profit the sacrificer. Again what is swallowed is when fearing he chooses a priest, 'Let him not either oppress me, nor let him make confusion in the sacrifice for me.' That is remote like something swallowed; that does not profit the sacrificer. Again what is vomited is when he chooses as priest one who is spoken ill of. Just as here men are disgusted by what is vomited, so therefore the gods. That is > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) > remote like something vomited; that does not profit the sacrificer. He should not desire these three. If against his desire he should have one of these three, there is in the Stotra of the Vāmadevya an expiation for it. The Vāmadevya (Sāman) is this, the world of the sacrificer, the world of ambrosia, the world of heaven. It is three syllables short; having crept up for the chanting of the (Sāman), he should divide the self into three, \_pu\_, \_ru\_, and \_ṣa\_. He places the self in these worlds, in this world of the sacrificer, in this world of ambrosia, in the world of heaven; he overcomes all errors in sacrifice. ‘Even if the priests are perfect,’ he used to say, ‘he should mutter this.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 3.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.3.45) - [Next: 3.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.3.47) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.3) ## Translations (2) - [Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya~en-keith.3.5.p5) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya~en-mt.3.46) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (3) - [Aitareyabrāhmaṇabhāṣya (Vedārthaprakāśa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya!sayana.18.p16) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit - [Sukhapradā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya!sadgurusisya) — Ṣaḍguruśiṣya, Sanskrit - [Vedārthaprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya!madhava-alias-sayanacarya) — Mādhava alias Sāyaṇācārya, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (2) - [Altindische Grammatik](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.wackernagel-1896.v4.c15.s2.t3.38) — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German - [Die Hymnen des Rigveda, Bd. I: Metrische und textgeschichtliche Prolegomena](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.oldenberg-1888.c7.7) — Hermann Oldenberg, German --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.3.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.3.46) · Pramāṇa