Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 4.10
English (machine translation) 4.10
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Now, that he gives a first-born cow [as sacrificial fee],
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for this is a first action.
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If he should feel weary of this [iṣṭi],
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he should make the oblation of the Full Moon or of the New Moon [sacrifice] from the new [grains], for the attainment of both.
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Or he should add the oblations to the Full Moon or to the New Moon [sacrifice], so that the deities are not neglected.
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Or he should offer the Agnihotra evening and morning with gruel made of the new [grains], for the attainment of both.
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Or having cooked a dish of rice on the Gārhapatya fire from the new [grains], he should offer it on the Āhavanīya fire to these deities of the Āgrayaṇa, with [Agni] Sviṣṭakṛt as fourth, [saying,] 'To that [deity] svāhā, to that [deity] svāhā', so that the deities are not neglected.
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Or having fed the Agnihotra cow with the new [grains], he should offer the Agnihotra evening and morning with her milk, for the attainment of both.
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These are the alternative procedures, so many.
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With whichever among them he may desire, with that he should sacrifice.
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The three-oblation [rite], however, is the standard.
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Three, truly, are these worlds.
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He thereby obtains these very worlds, he thereby obtains these very worlds.
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- Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa — Kauṣītaki, Sanskrit