Aitareyabrahmana 2.13

2.13

Concerning this they say:
'What is the introductory verse, what the direction, what the offering verse for the svāhākṛti offerings?'
Those which he recites here are the introductory verses,
the direction is the direction, and the offering verse is the offering verse.
Concerning this they say:
'What is the deity of the svāhākṛti offerings?'
'The All-gods,' he should say.
Therefore they offer saying: 'May the gods eat the offering made with svāhā!'
By sacrifice, by exertion, by ascetic heat, by oblations, the gods won the heavenly world.
When only the omentum had been offered, the heavenly world was revealed to them.
Having offered only the omentum, disregarding the other rites, they went upwards to the heavenly world.
Then human beings and the ṛṣis came to the sacrificial site of the gods, [thinking:]
'We shall search for something of the sacrifice by way of recognition.'
Moving around, they saw this victim lying with its entrails removed.
They understood: 'The victim is just as large as the omentum.'
The victim is indeed just as large as the omentum.
Now when they cook it and offer it at the third pressing, [they think:]
'May our sacrifice be made with more oblations; may our sacrifice be made with the whole victim.'
His sacrifice is made with more oblations,
and his sacrifice is made with the whole victim, who knows this.