Aitareyabrahmana 2.3.p2

2.3.p2

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