Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 16.5.20

16.5.20

tasya na parastāt pariyajed ity āhuḥ /

xvi. 5. ‘Say the offering verse for the ghee’ and ‘Say the offering verse for the Soma drink’, he says; by ghee and by Soma is the sacrifice carried on; these here he delights (thinking) ‘They delighted shall support the sacrifice.’ Inaudibly he says the offering verse for the ghee; ghee is a pouring of seed; inaudibly is seed poured. In that he says the offering verse aloud for the Soma drink, (it is because) Soma is the moon, and the moon is distinct. ‘After it he should not perform any additional offering,’ they say, ‘So do they yonder from yonder look back on this (world)’. But the rule is, ‘Let him perform’. The butter is the world of the gods, the Soma the world of the fathers; verily thus they arise from the world