Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 27.9.24

27.9.24

eṣa u devo apahata pāpmā / (soma: daśamam ahah)

xxvii. 5. ‘Eater of food and mistress of food’ (is one form); the eater of food is this (earth); the mistress of food yonder (sky). ‘The fair and the beautiful’ (is a second): the fair is the Soma; the beautiful is cattle. ‘The unresting and the fearless’ (is a third); the unresting is Vāyu, for he never rests; the fearless is death, for he has no fear. ‘The unattained and the unattainable’ (is a fourth); the unattained is this earth; the unattainable yonder sky. ‘The unattacked and the unattackable’ (is a fifth); the unattacked is Agni here; he unattackable yonder Āditya. ‘That which has no prius and no rival’; that which has no prius is the mind; that which has no rival the year. Now he yonder who gives heat is yonder householder, for he is a lord of houses, his houses are the seasons; he is a lord and he is also a god from whom evil has been smitten away. The Adhvaryu runs northward; they close the doors of the Sadas and also of the shed.