Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 18.9.13

18.9.13

atha yat triṣṭubho yājyā bhavanti /

xviii. 13. If the victim is a cow, (it is because) Mitra and Varuṇa are praised with the cow; therefore the victim is a cow. The offering verse for the omentum is ‘Ye two are clothed in garments of fatness’; ‘fatness’ is the symbol of the fat of the omentum. That of the cake is ‘What is most abundant, not to be pierced, O ye rich in dew’; ‘most abundant’, (he says), for the cake is abundant as it were. ‘Do ye stretch forth your arms for life for us’ is that of the oblation; ‘arms’ is the symbol of the members of the oblation.