Aitareyabrahmana 3.2.p16

3.2.p16

sever him from the people', he should here on both sides of the Nivid utter the call; on both sides thus he cuts him off from the people. So for one practising witchcraft, but the other way for one desiring heaven. ‘The birds, fair winged, have approached Indra’, with this last (verse ) he concludes; ‘the Priyamedhas, the seers, seeking aid; do thou unroll the darkness’ (he says). The darkness by which he deems himself surrounded that should he approach in mind; that from him is removed. ‘Fill the eye’, with this he should rub his eyes; possessed of sight until old age becomes he who knows thus. ‘Release us that are bound as it were with a net’ (he says); a net is snares; verily thus he says ‘Release us being bound from a snare as it were’.