Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 23.8.11

23.8.11

tasmād v aikāhikībhir eva yajeyuḥ /

xxiii. 5. Therefore assuredly they should use (the verses) of the one-day rite as offering verses, to prevent disturbance of the path that leads to the gods.’ As to this Aṇīcin Mauna asked the Jābāla householders, having glided up to them when they were performing a sacrificial session, ‘Have ye departed from the day, are ye Parucchepas?’ Then were they silent; then from the north half of the Sadas Citra Gauçrāyaṇi, or Gauçra, made reply, ‘We have not indeed left the day; we are not Parucchepas; in our litany the Parucchepa has already been added in the day (rite); with (the verses) for the one-day (rite) have we sacrificed; therefore we have not departed from the day.’ One after another should they say the offering verses; the sixth day is an abode of the gods; if on that day the Hotṛ alone should say *vaṣaṭ*, the Hotṛ would commingle the abode of the gods of the Adhvaryu and the householder. A race they run for the world of heaven by the sixth day; he who completes it without drawing in breath wins the world of heaven; but, if he should draw in breath, let him ever and again pushing forward try (to complete it).