Aitareyabrahmana 2.24

2.24

He who knows the sacrifice as a fivefold oblation prospers through the sacrifice of fivefold oblation. / Parched grains, barley mush, puffed rice, sacrificial cake, and curd-mixture—this sacrifice is indeed a fivefold oblation; he prospers through the sacrifice of fivefold oblation who knows thus. / He who knows the sacrifice as a fivefold syllable prospers through the sacrifice of fivefold syllable. / 'Su', 'mat', 'pad', 'vag', 'da'—this sacrifice is indeed a fivefold syllable; he prospers through the sacrifice of fivefold syllable who knows thus. / He who knows the sacrifice as fivefold in Narāśaṃsa cups prospers through the sacrifice fivefold in Narāśaṃsa cups. / Twice with Narāśaṃsa cups at the morning pressing, twice with Narāśaṃsa cups at the midday pressing, / once with a Narāśaṃsa cup at the third pressing—this sacrifice is indeed fivefold in Narāśaṃsa cups. / He prospers through the sacrifice fivefold in Narāśaṃsa cups who knows thus. / He who knows the sacrifice as a fivefold pressing prospers through the sacrifice of fivefold pressing. / The victim on the day of preparation, the three pressings, the victim to be bound afterwards— / this sacrifice is indeed a fivefold pressing; / he prospers through the sacrifice of fivefold pressing who knows thus. / 'Let Indra with his bays eat the parched grains, with Pūṣan the barley mush, with Sarasvatī and with Bhāratī / the puffed rice; the cake is Indra's'—thus he sacrifices with the fivefold oblation. / The verse and the saman are Indra's two bays. / Cattle are Pūṣan; food is barley mush. / As for 'with Sarasvatī and with Bhāratī', Sarasvatī is speech, Bharata is breath. / As for 'the puffed rice; the cake is Indra's', puffed rice is food, the cake is faculty. / Thereby he makes the sacrificer attain union, sameness of form, and residence in the same world with these deities. / He attains union with what is better, he attains excellence, who knows thus. / 'Enjoy the sacrificial offering, O Agni,' he recites at each pressing for the sacrificial cake's Sviṣṭakṛt. / By this Avatsāra reached the dear abode of Agni; he won the supreme world. / He reaches the dear abode of Agni, he wins the supreme world, who knows thus / and who, knowing thus, sacrifices with this fivefold oblation—yea, who sacrifices, who sacrifices.