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Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 2.4

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2.4.1

Some indeed say: "One should offer in the Āhavanīya alone."

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He should, however, offer in all [three fires].

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For these [fires] are established for offering.

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Four [oblations] in the Gārhapatya;

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four in the Anvāhāryapacana;

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two in the Āhavanīya.

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They amount to ten.

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The Virāj consists of tens.

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The Virāj is prosperity and proper food;

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[this is] for the attainment of prosperity, the Virāj, and proper food.

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He who offers the Agnihotra thus made to conform to the Virāj

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attains all desires.

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Now, that having offered he attends upon the fires:

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having pleased [them], he finally declares his purpose among the gods.

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And in that he touches the calf,

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therefore it is [the hymn] of Vatsaprī.

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Thus indeed the cattle do not wander away from the sacrificer.

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Now, when he sips water and releases the vow,

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he deposits that vow in the waters alone.

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They protect his vow until the next offering.

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Moreover, when, being about to set out on a journey and having returned from a journey, he attends upon the fires,

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it is indeed a salutation to the deity when there is an appearance [before them].

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Moreover, it is to the fires alone that he commits himself,

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as well as those who follow him.

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Now, when he takes up the fires into the two churning sticks,

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the two churning sticks are indeed the divine chariot;

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he mounts them onto the divine chariot itself.

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By this divine chariot he safely reaches the heavenly world.

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And when he churns them out again and again,

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by that the re-establishment of the sacred fires is indeed obtained for him.

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Whatever pleasures there are in food, in drink, in mating,

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they are made continuous, uninterrupted by the night.

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Night is their strainer.

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And whatever pleasures there are,

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