Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 5.p8

5.p8

v. 3. By means of the Vaiçvadeva sacrifice Prajāpati created offspring; they, being created, not born, ate the barley of Varuṇa; Varuṇa grasped them with Varuṇa's nooses. The offspring having gone ran up to their father Prajāpati, 'Do thou devise that sacrificial rite by which we may sacrifice and be set free from the nooses of Varuṇa, from all ill.' Then Prajāpati saw this sacrificial rite, the Varuṇapraghāsas; he grasped it, and sacrificed with it; having sacrificed with it he delighted Varuṇa; Varuṇa being delighted, freed offspring from the nooses of Varuṇa and from all evil. From the nooses of Varuṇa and from all evil are freed the offspring of him who knowing thus sacrifices with the Praghasas. In that they bring forward the fire, verily thus do they bring forward yonder fire which they kindle at the Vaiçvadeva. In that the fire is kindled, the explanation of that has been given. In that there are seventeen kindling verses, the butter portions contain the word 'being' and the invitatory and offering verses are Virāj verses, the explanation of that has been given. In that there are nine fore-offerings and nine after-offerings, and nine oblations, thus he obtains the brilliance of the Nakṣatras; the five accompanying oblations ending with that to Pūṣan are the same; the explanation of them has been given.