Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 6.p30

6.p30

vii. 3. He does not make the wife (of the sacrificer) speak on the grass bundle; he does not strew it (thinking) ‘In that it is a Soma sacrifice, this sacrifice is not here complete as it were; let me not conclude the Soma sacrifice before its time.’ They say ‘Why do others not utter the name of the consecrated?’ He who is consecrating himself consecrates himself as Agni; in that others do not utter his name, (it is because they think), ‘Let us not sit down in Agni.’ Again, in that he does not utter the name of another, (it is because he thinks) ‘Let me not, having become Agni, burn him.’ If he hate a man, he should mumble his name when consecrated; verily thus, having become Agni, he burns him. If he desire a man, he should utter his name with a clear voice; that is the expiation here; the clear is the eye; for with the eye he sees clearly. But this exclamation is the speech of the consecrated, and it is verily truth. ‘He who speaks truth, he is consecrated,’ so used he to say. They say ‘Why do they not eat the food of the consecrated?’ In that he consecrates himself, he becomes an oblation; it would be as one might eat of the undivided oblation. He may eat at pleasure when there is continuous pressing; that would be as one might eat of the oblation when fresh. They say ‘Why does the consecrated not offer the Agnihotra?’ The Asuras offered (it) in themselves without fire which was blown out; they were defeated, when they sacrificed in what had no fire; then the gods appropriated this breath, Agni. In that in the evening and in the morning the fast drink is bestowed, the Agnihotra is offered continuously and without a break in this breath, Agni.