Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 10.7.7

10.7.7

daivyāḥ śamitāra uta ca manuṣyā ārabhadhvam upanayata medhyā dura āśāsānā medhapatibhyām medham iti / (paśu: adhrigu praiṣa)

x. 4. ‘O ye divine slayers and ye human make ready; bring (the victim) to the doors of the sacrifice, ordaining the sacrifice for the two lords of the sacrifice’; regarding this some say, ‘The lord of the sacrifice is the sacrificer.’ ‘What man (is the lord)?’ he should say, ‘the lord of the sacrifice is the deity only.’ ‘Its bends are twenty-six’, (he says); the bends are the ribs. On both sides of the blood he breathes down, (thinking) ‘The Rakṣases have the blood as their share; let me not set away the share of the gods with the share of the Rakṣases.’ It is the Adhrigu (formula). The instruction is ‘Do not mutilate the limbs.’ What is unspoilt is the oblation of the gods; they do not eat the oblation which is spoilt. Nine times does he breathe down in the Adhrigu; the breaths are nine; verily thus he places breaths in the sacrificer, to secure full life in this world and immortality in yonder world. Thrice he utters the concluding verse, to avoid non-recurrence. He says one before; the fathers are one as it were; the victim has as it were the fathers for its deity when it is being offered. In that he says three after, and among the gods (things are) thrice, verily thus he makes it have the gods as its deities, and renews it. Having concluded he mutters inaudibly, ‘Both and he that is not evil’; the slayer of the gods is not evil; to him verily does he hand it over, for he knows the gods.