Aitareyabrahmana 7.2: adhyāya 32, khaṇḍaḥ 1-11

7.2

tad āhur:
ya āhitāgnir upavasathe mriyeta, katham asya yajñaḥ syād iti.
nainaṃ yājayed, iti āhur, anabhiprāpto hi yajñam bhavatīti
tad āhur:
ya āhitāgnir adhiśrite 'gnihotre sāṃnāyye vā haviṣṣu vā mriyeta,
kā tatra prāyaścittir ity.
atraivaināny anuparyādadhyād yathā sarvāṇi saṃdahyeran.
sā tatra prāyaścittis
tad āhur:
ya āhitāgnir āsanneṣu haviṣṣu mriyeta,
kā tatra prāyaścittir iti.
yābhya eva tānī devatābhyo havīṃṣi gṛhītānī bhavanti,
tābhyaḥ svāhety evaināny āhavanīye sarvahunti juhuyāt.
sā tatra prāyaścittis
tad āhur:
ya āhitāgniḥ pravasan mriyeta, katham asyāgnihotraṃ syād ity.
abhivānyavatsāyāḥ payasā juhuyād.
anyad ivaitat payo yad abhivānyavatsāyā,
anyad ivaitad agnihotraṃ yat pretasyā/pi
vā yata eva kutaśca payasā juhuyur
athāpy āhur:
evam evainān ajasrān ajuhvata indhīrann ā śarīrāṇām āhartor iti
yadi śarīrāṇi na vidyeran,
parṇaśaraḥ ṣaṣṭiṃ trīṇi ca śatāny āhṛtya teṣām puruṣarūpakam
iva kṛtivā tasmiṃs tām āvṛtaṃ kuryur,
athaināñ charīrair āhṛtaiḥ saṃsparśyodvāsayeyur
adhyardhaśataṃ kāye, sakthinī dvipañcāśe ca viṃśe co,rū dvipañcaviṃśe,
śeṣāṃ tu śirasy upari dadhyāt
sā tatra prāyaścitti

vii. 2 (xxxii. 1). They say 'If one who has established the fires dies on the fast day, how is it with his sacrifice?' 'He should not sacrifice for him', they say, 'for he has not arrived at the sacrifice.' They say 'If one who has established the fires dies when the Agnihotra has been put on the fire or the Sāmnāyya milk or the oblations, what is the expiation here?' He should put them all around so that they may all be burned together. That is the expiation here. They say 'If one who has established the fires dies when the oblations have been put in place, what is the expiation here?' (Saying) 'Hail!' to those deities for whom the libations were drawn he should offer them whole in the Āhavanīya. That is the expiation here. They say 'If one who has established the fires dies in absence, how is his Agnihotra to be performed?' He should offer with the milk of (a cow) with a calf to which it is to be won over; the milk of (a cow) with a calf to which it is to be won over is different, as it were, the Agnihotra of the dead is different as it were. Or they may offer with milk from whatever source. Moreover they say 'They should keep kindled these fires, without offering, until the bones are collected.' If the bones cannot be found, having gathered three hundred and sixty leaf stalks, and having made of them

a human figure as it were, they should perform on it the usual round (of ceremonies) and thus after mingling, the (fires) with the bones gathered together remove them. A hundred and fifty should he place on the body, a hundred and forty on the thigh bones, fifty on the thighs, and the rest on the head. That is the expiation here.