Aitareyabrahmana 6.8

6.8

The concluding verses of the hotrakas at the morning pressing and at the midday [pressing] are of both kinds: those belonging to the multi-day sacrifice (ahīna) and those belonging to the one-day sacrifice (ekāha). Then the Maitrāvaruṇa concludes with those belonging to the one-day sacrifice; thereby he does not fall away from this world. The Achāvāka [concludes] with those belonging to the multi-day sacrifice, for the attainment of the heavenly world. The Brāhmaṇācchaṃsin [concludes] with both kinds. Thereby he goes along grasping both: this world and that world; and also the Maitrāvaruṇa and the Achāvāka; and also the multi-day sacrifice and the one-day sacrifice; and also the year and the agniṣṭoma sacrifice. Thus indeed he goes along grasping both. Then, in the third pressing, the concluding verses of the hotrakas belong only to the one-day sacrifice. The one-day sacrifice is indeed a foundation; thus at the end they establish the sacrifice in a foundation. He should sacrifice at the morning pressing without taking a breath. He should not over-recite the stoma by one or two [verses]. That is just as one would quickly offer [a drink] to one who is neighing [or shouting] and thirsty; it is like that. And also [he thinks]: 'Let me quickly offer food and the Soma-draught to the gods.' Quickly indeed does he establish himself in this world. With an unmeasured [number of verses he recites] at the two higher pressings. The heavenly world is indeed unmeasured, for the attainment of the heavenly world. The hotṛ priest may recite at will what the hotrakas recited on the previous day, or what the hotṛ [recites], that the hotrakas [recite]. The hotṛ priest is breath; the hotrakas are the limbs. This same breath moves through the limbs. Therefore the hotṛ priest may recite at will what the hotrakas recited on the previous day, or what the hotṛ [recites], that the hotrakas [recite]. The hotṛ priest concludes with hymn-endings. Then the concluding verses of the hotrakas at the third pressing are identical. The hotṛ priest is the self; the hotrakas are the limbs. Identical indeed are these ends of the limbs. Therefore the concluding verses of the hotrakas at the third pressing are identical, are identical.