Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 18.4.13

18.4.13

vibhrāja āhutim juhuyād anirjñāyamāna āditye /

xviii. 5. so regarding it, he should conclude. He should offer a libation to the shining one, when the sun cannot be discerned, he who is unsuited; he becomes then revealed to them. With two (verses) should he sacrifice, for by reason of two it is called the Āçvina. Having recited the Gāyatrī without breathing in, he takes in breath at the half verse of the Virāj; the Virāj is prosperity and proper food; verily thus he finds support in the Virāj as prosperity and proper food. With the second half verse of the Virāj he says the *vaṣaṭ* call; verily thus he places the sacrificer in the world of heaven. ‘He should use the Virāj only as offering verse’, Kauṣītaki used to say; the Virāj has thirty-three syllables; the gods are thirty-three; the gods he makes to share the syllables. ‘O Açvins, ye of keen insight, with Vāyu’, is, however, the rule, namely a Triṣṭubh to the Açvins, containing (the words) ‘Kept over night’, for the Somas are kept over night. Moreover, the Triṣṭubh is might and strength; verily thus he places might and strength in the sacrificer. He says the second *vaṣaṭ*, for the healing of the libations, for the support of the libations. When the Sāman chanters have finished, he offers the two libations of the offering for the choosing (of priests) (thinking) ‘Speech and mind being delighted shall support the great Çastra.’