Aitareyabrahmana 7.20

7.20

Now follows the begging of the place for divine worship. / Regarding this they say: / 'When a brāhmaṇa, a rājanya, or a vaiśya begs a place for divine worship from a kṣatriya who is about to be consecrated, / from whom should the kṣatriya beg it?' / 'He should beg it from the divine nobility,' they say. / The divine nobility is the Āditya; the Āditya is the overlord of these beings. / On whatever day he is about to be consecrated, / on that very day, in the forenoon, he should approach the rising Āditya [with the verse]: 'This best light among lights, supreme / O god Savitṛ, give me a place for divine worship!' Thus he begs a place for divine worship. / When, having been begged there, he moves further upwards, he is saying: 'Om, thus I give.' / There is no harm whatsoever for him who is impelled by the god Savitṛ. Ever-increasing / fortune he attains, he attains lordship and overlordship over offspring, / he who, being a kṣatriya, having thus approached, begged a place for divine worship, and chosen it, becomes consecrated.