Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 8.4

English (machine translation) 8.4

This Mahāvīra is indeed the head of the sacrifice.

One should not perform the Pravargya ceremony at a first sacrifice.

The subsequent sacrifice comes readily to him who does not perform the Pravargya ceremony at the first sacrifice.

At will, however, for one who is learned and proficient in Vedic lore, one may perform the Pravargya.

He is indeed the self of the sacrifice.

With the self he thus makes the sacrifice complete.

That Mahāvīra is indeed yonder one who burns.

Him indeed he thereby propitiates.

He should praise him with one hundred and one [verses].

He indeed burns placed at a distance of a hundred yojanas.

With a hundred [verses] he reaches him over the path of a hundred yojanas.

Then that which is the hundred and first is the world of the sacrificer.

Unto this self the sacrificer attains.

Whom they make known as this person in the sun,

he is Indra, he is Prajāpati, he is Brahman.

Here indeed the sacrificer attains identity of world and union with all the deities.

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