Aitareyabrahmana 7.10

7.10

(Regarding this they say:
How does a man without a wife offer the agnihotra with speech?
When a man has set up household and his wife dies or disappears, how does he offer the agnihotra?
Sons, grandsons, great-grandsons—they say:
in this world and in yonder world, and in this world
he mounted the heavenly world, this heavenly one with what is not heavenly.
He maintains the continuity of that very world, [in case] someone among these does not desire a wife.
Therefore they perform the establishment of fires for one without a wife.
How does one without a wife offer the agnihotra?
Faith is the wife, truth is the sacrificer.
Faith and truth—that is the highest copulative pair;
by means of the copulative pair of faith and truth he wins heavenly worlds.)