Aitareyabrahmana 5.28

5.28

asau vā asyādityo yūpaḥ, pṛthivī vedir, oṣadhayo barhir,
vanaspataya idhmā, āpaḥ prokṣaṇyo, diśaḥ paridhayo
yad dha vā asya kiṃca naśyati yan mriyate yad apājanti,
sarvaṃ haivanaṃ tad amuṣmim̐l loke yathā barhiṣi dattam
āgached evam āgachati ya evaṃ vidvān agnihotraṃ juhoty
ubhayān vā eṣa devamanuṣyān viparyāsaṃ dakṣiṇā nayati sarvaṃ cedaṃ
yad idaṃ kiṃca
manuṣyān vā eṣa sāyamāhutyā devebhyo dakṣiṇā nayati
sarvaṃ cedaṃ yad idaṃ kiṃca.
ta ete pralīnā nyokasa iva śere manuṣyā devebhyo dakṣiṇā nītā
devān vā eṣa prātarāhutyā manuṣyebhyo dakṣiṇā nayati sarvaṃ cedaṃ
yad idaṃ kiṃca.
ta ete vividānā ivotpatanty:
ado 'haṃ kariṣye, 'do haṃ gamiṣyāmīti vadanto
yāvantaṃ ha vai sarvam idaṃ dattvā lokaṃ jayati,
tāvantaṃ ha lokaṃ jayati ya evaṃ vidvān agnihotraṃ juhoty
Agnaye vā eṣa sāyamāhutyāśvinam upākaroh,
tad vāk pratigṛṇāti:
vāg-vāg ity
Agninā hāsya rātryāśvinaṃ śastam bhavati
ya evaṃ vidvān agnihotraṃ juhoty
Ādityāyā vā eṣa prātarāhutyā mahāvratam upākaroti,
tat prāṇaḥ pratigṛṇāty:
annam-annam ity.
Ādityena hāsyāhnā mahāvrataṃ śastam bhavati
ya evaṃ vidvān agnihotraṃ juhoti
tasya vā etasyāgnihotrasya sapta ca śatāni viṃśatiś ca saṃvatsare
sāyamāhutayaḥ, sapta co eva śatāni viṃśatiś ca saṃvatsare prātarāhutayas.
tāvatyo 'gner yajuṣmatya iṣṭakāḥ
saṃvatsareṇa hāsyāgninā cityeneṣṭam bhavati
ya evaṃ vidvān agnihotraṃ juhoti

v. 28 (xxv. 3) The sacrificial post is yonder sun, the altar the earth, the strew the plants, the kindling wood the trees, the sprinkling waters the waters, the enclosing sticks the quarters. Whatever of his is lost, or dies, or men drive away, all of that comes to him in yonder world who knows thus to offer the Agnihotra, just as what is placed on the strew would come. Both sets, gods and men, reciprocally he leads as fees and all this whatever there is here. Men by the evening libation he leads as fees to the gods and all this whatever there is is here; they lie as it were relaxed and at home, when taken as fees for the gods. The gods by the morning libation he leads as fees to man and all this whatever there is here. They

leap up recognizing this as it were (saying) ‘That shall I do; there shall I go’. The world which a man conquers by giving all this, that world he conquers who knowing thus offers the Agnihotra. By the evening libation for Agni he begins the Āçvina (Çastra); speech utters the response in ‘Speech, speech’. By Agni, by the night, is the Āçvina recited by him who knowing thus offers the Agnihotra. For Āditya by the morning libation he begins the Mahāvrata; breath utters the response in ‘Food; food’; by Āditya, by the deity is the Mahāvrata recited by him who knowing thus offers the Agnihotra. Of this Agnihotra there are seven hundred and twenty evening libations in the year; there are also seven hundred and twenty morning libations in the year. So many are the bricks accompanied by Yajus verses of the fire. By the year, by the fire fully does he sacrifice who knowing thus offers the Agnihotra.