Aitareyabrahmana 6.22

6.22

'Drive away forwards, O Indra, all our foes,' the maitrāvaruṇa recites daily before the hymns. / 'Turn away those to the rear, O conqueror; / Drive away those to the north, drive away, O hero, those to the south, that we may rejoice in your broad protection.' / This has the characteristic form of fearlessness, for he who goes [on an ahīna] desires, as it were, fearlessness. / 'With brahman harnessed by brahman I yoke for you,' the brāhmaṇācchaṃsī recites daily. / 'I yoke' has the word 'yoked'; for an ahīna is yoked as it were: it is the characteristic form of an ahīna. / 'Lead us knowingly along a broad space,' the achāvāka recites daily. / 'Lead along'—for an ahīna goes forward as it were: it is the characteristic form of an ahīna. / 'May you lead' is the characteristic form of a sacrificial session. / These indeed are recited daily. / They should conclude with identical [verses]. / Indra comes to dwell in their sacrifice, / just as a bull [comes] to a cow in heat, or a cow to a known pen; / so indeed Indra comes straight to their sacrifice. / One should not conclude an ahīna with the śunaṃhuvīyā [verse]. / A kṣatriya falls from his realm [if one does so]; whoever is an outsider, him he summons.