Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 6.p40
Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) 6.p40
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deities he obtains all that is fivefold regarding the deities and regarding the self. Of these the invitatory and offering verses contain (the words), ‘safe’, ‘path’, ‘bring across’, ‘forward’, and ‘lead’. The Maruts, the subjects of the gods, enjoying the atmosphere, have the power to confound the sacrifice of the sacrificer as he goes to the world of heaven. In that they contain (the words) ‘safe’, ‘path’, ‘bring across’, ‘forward’, and ‘lead’, verily the Maruts, the subjects of the gods, harm him not; safely he attains the world of heaven. Them he inverts; the invitatory verses in the introductory sacrifice he makes the offering verses in the concluding sacrifice, the offering verses (he makes) the invitatory verses.