Aitareyabrahmana 4.30

4.30

'May Indra come to us from afar, to us from near' is the hymn; / having 'eti' on the first day, it is the characteristic of the first day. / The two Sampata hymns are the place of insertion of the nivid in the Niskevalya and Marutvatiya sastras. / Vamadeva indeed saw these worlds; he flew through them with the Sampatas. / Because he flew through (samapatat) them with the Sampatas, that is the essence of the Sampatas. / When he recites the two Sampatas on the first day, / it is for the attainment, the acquisition, the reaching of the heavenly world. / 'That desirable [splendour] of Savitr we choose', 'Today for us, god Savitr' are / the opening verse and the following verse of the Vaisvadeva sastra. / On the day of the Rathantara, on the first day, it is the characteristic of the first day. / 'They yoke the mind and they yoke the thoughts' is / the hymn to Savitr containing 'yoked'; on the first day, it is the characteristic of the first day. / 'Forth Heaven and Earth with sacrifices, increasers of order' is the hymn to Heaven and Earth; / having 'pra' on the first day, it is the characteristic of the first day. / 'Here and here your kinship through mind, O men' is the hymn to the Rbhus. / What contains 'eti' and 'pra', that is the characteristic of the first day. / If everything had contained 'pra', the sacrificers would indeed have departed from this world. / Therefore, when he recites on the first day the hymn to the Rbhus, 'Here and here your kinship through mind, O men', / this world is 'here and here'; thus he causes them to rest firmly in this world. / 'The gods I summon, of far-reaching renown, for well-being' is the hymn to the Visvedevas; / the deities are distinctly expressed in the first quarter-verse; on the first day, it is the characteristic of the first day. / Great is the way they are about to set out upon, / those who sit for the year-long sacrifice or the twelve-day sacrifice. / When he recites on the first day the hymn to the Visvedevas, / 'The gods I summon, of far-reaching renown, for well-being', it is for the sake of well-being. / He thereby makes a journey toward well-being; / safely he reaches the far shore of the year, who knows thus, and for whom / a hotr priest knowing thus recites this hymn to the Visvedevas on the first day: / 'The gods I summon, of far-reaching renown, for well-being'. / 'To Vaisvanara of broad light, the inspired song' is the opening verse of the Agnimaruta sastra; / the deity is distinctly expressed in the first quarter-verse; on the first day, it is the characteristic of the first day. / 'Strong, powerful, exuberant' is the hymn to the Maruts; / having 'pra' on the first day, it is the characteristic of the first day. / 'For Jatavedas let us press the Soma'—he recites the verse to Jatavedas before the hymn. / Verses to Jatavedas are indeed a journey toward well-being, for the sake of well-being. / He thereby makes a journey toward well-being; / safely he reaches the far shore of the year, who knows thus. / 'Forth a stronger, newer hymn to Agni' is the hymn to Jatavedas; / having 'pra' on the first day, it is the characteristic of the first day. / The Agnimaruta sastra is identical with that in the agnistoma sacrifice. / What is performed identically in the sacrifice, offspring breathe in unison with that; / therefore the Agnimaruta sastra is identical.