Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 16.9.6

16.9.6

aindrāgna iti kauṣītakeḥ /

xvi. 9. ‘What is the deity of the Soma?’ Madhuka asked Gauçra. He, after running over (the words) ‘Soma becometh pure’, replied ‘There may be different ones.’ ‘As with the Bahvṛcas, it should be connected with Indra’ was the rule of Paiṅgya. ‘It should be connected with Indra and Agni’ is Kauṣītaki's view. ‘By Agni it begins in that (it begins) with the Ājya; with Indra it ends (in) this concluding verse; therefore it should be connected with Indra and Agni.’ ‘This is the Agniṣṭoma; this is taken for every desire. He who offers with any other sacrifice without having sacrificed with this prepares for himself a pitfall, he comes to ruin’, he used to say. This Agniṣṭoma begins with the Ājya (Çastra) and ends with the Āgnimāruta. What has to be recited makes up three hundred and sixty Ṛc verses; three hundred and sixty are the days of the year; verily (it serves) to obtain the year. After reciting the litany he uses as offering verse, ‘O Agni, with the Maruts, resplendent, loud singing’, addressed to Agni and the Maruts, for this litany is addressed to Agni and the Maruts; in Jagatī metre, for the third pressing is connected with the Jagatī; containing (the words) ‘be drunk’, for the third pressing is connected with ‘be drunk’. He says the second *vaṣaṭ*, for the healing of the libations, for the support of the libations.