Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 18.8.21

18.8.21

atha yadi paśur āvīto anupākṛto ṃriyeta / (soma: avabhṛtha)

xviii. 12. If the victim has been brought up but before being prepared for sacrifice dies, he should cause it to be given to the priests; then they should offer another, of the same form and of the same deity. When the Āprīs have been said over it and the fire carried round it, they should lead it northwards and should dispose of it. In the manner of it they should take another. Having forced out their omenta separately and cooked them separately, they should offer them, cutting off portions separately, with one *vaṣaṭ* call. Having cooked separately the cakes for the victims, and having made portions separately, they should offer them with one *vaṣaṭ* call. Having cooked separately the oblations and having made portions separately, they should offer them with one *vaṣaṭ* call. So with the thirds of the intestines, so with the hind portions. ‘Even if, however, but one of the Āprīs has been said, with it should they proceed’ is the rule. The Āprīs are the breaths; verily thus he places the breaths in it. Now (they ask) ‘If (the victim) is eight-footed, how shall it be?’ Having cooked on the slaughtering fire from the skin of the embryo (a portion) shaped like the omentum and from chaff of the pounded grains an embryo itself, they should offer on the slaughterer’s fire to the *vaṣaṭ* calls of the other. The Rakṣases go to the sacrifice when such a thing occurs; them thereby he smites away; that is not smitten by Rakṣases. So now if that which is to be offered is an animal, but if it is a milk mess (it is because) the milk mess is Mitra and Varuṇa’s own oblation, for it is the rule that to Mitra and Varuṇa the milk mess is offered.