Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 18.6

18.6.1

atha prāṇānt sammṛśante /

Then they touch their vital breaths.

18.6.2

tad yad eva atra prāṇānām krūrī kṛtam yad viliṣṭam tad eva etad āpyāyayanti tad bhiṣajyanti / (soma: aAśvina śastra)

Whatever of their vital breaths has been injured here, whatever strained, that they thereby invigorate, that they heal.

18.6.3

bhakṣa paridhīn kurvate /

They make cups for consuming [Soma] into enclosure-sticks.

18.6.4

mānuṣeṇa eva tad bhakṣeṇa daivam bhakṣam antar dadhate / (soma: aAśvina śastra)

With human consumption they thereby separate divine consumption.

18.6.5

avabhṛthaḥ /

The avabhṛtha.

xviii. 9. The final bath (is described). Him who yonder gives heat they seek by these pressings to obtain; the rising by the morning pressing, (the sun) in the middle (of his course) by the midday pressing, (the sun) as he sets by the third pressing. He, having entered the waters, becomes Varuṇa; therefore he offers to Varuṇa a cake on one potsherd; prosperity is solitary; Varuṇa is prosperity; verily thus he finds support at the end in prosperity. They depart between the pit and the mound, for that is

18.6.6

amum eva etat savanair īpsanti yo asau tapati /

With the pressings they seek to reach that one there who shines.

18.6.7

udyantam prātaḥ savanena / (soma: avabhṛtha)

As he rises, with the morning pressing;

18.6.8

madhye santam mādhyaṃdinena savanena /

as he is in the middle, with the midday pressing;

18.6.9

astam yantam tṛtīya savanena /

as he sets, with the third pressing.

18.6.10

sa vā eṣo apaḥ praviśya varuṇo bhavati / (soma: avabhṛtha)

Having entered the waters, he indeed becomes Varuṇa.