Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 26.p26

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xxvi. 14. Going is the end; so yonder sky, yonder world, and the ninth day; therefore at the ninth day are recited hymns containing (the word) ‘go’. ‘We have gone with great praise to the youngest’ and ‘Me, the strong, O Agni, of the Soma’, these two (hymns) are the Ājya, containing (the word) ‘go’ in ‘We have gone’; this is a symbol of the end; the ninth day is the end; he returns as it were, having gone to the end, for hence whitherward should he go? It contains (the word) ‘stand’ in ‘Here stand the cows, fattening’; this is a symbol of the end; the ninth day is the end; having gone to the end, he stands as it were, for hence whitherward should he go? ‘“We have gone with great praise to the youngest”, this triplet alone should form the Ājya,’ Paiṅgya used to say. It contains (the word) ‘go’ in ‘We have gone’; this is a symbol of the end; the ninth day is the end; he returns as it were, having gone to the end, for hence whitherward should he go? ‘How can a triplet make up the Aṣṭācatvāriṅça Stoma?’ Kauṣītaki used to say. ‘Me the strong, O Agni, of the Soma’ he should also recite; this contains a symbol of ending in its reference to what has taken place; ‘We have brought forward the sacrifice’ and ‘From the sky they have learned’ are regarding what has taken place as it were. ‘Here however, the Stoma is not pervaded’ Paiṅgya used to say, ‘since by verses alone the Stoma cannot be pervaded’. ‘The verse by means of syllables makes up the Stoma, with syllables the Nivid or Puroruc the verse; the Stoma is pervaded then when either a Nivid or a Puroruc is recited.