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whom they bring in large measure, is himself pleased, and gives to another. One should offer in full
and large measure; Indra then being pleased delights him with offspring and cattle. He offers with a
wooden vessel, for an earthenware one does not hold the offering. It is of Udumbara wood [3]; the
Udumbara is strength, cattle are strength; verily by strength he wins for him strength and cattle. One
should not sacrifice to, Mahendra, if one is not prosperous. The prosperous are three; a learned
(Brahman), a village headman, and a warrior. Their deity is Mahendra. He who sacrifices beyond
his own deity loses his own deity, and does not obtain another, and becomes worse. For a year one
should sacrifice to Indra, for the vow extends not beyond the year; verily [4] his own deity, being
sacrificed to, kindles him with prosperity and he becomes richer. After the year he should offer a
cake on eight potsherds to Agni, lord of vows; verily for a year Agni, lord of vows, causes him to
take up the vow who has slain his foe (vrtra). Thereafter he may sacrifice at will.
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No one who is not a Soma sacrificer should offer the Samnayya. For the milk of him who is not a
Soma sacrificer is imperfect, and if one who is not a Soma sacrificer offers the Samnayya he is a
thief and does wrong, and (his milk) is poured forth in vain. A Soma sacrificer only should offer the
Samnayya. Soma is milk, the Samnayya is milk; verily with milk he places milk in himself. The
moon deprives him of offspring and cattle, and makes his enemy wax great on whose sacrifice
when offered it rises in the east [1]. He should divide the rice grains into three parts; the mean size
he should make into a cake on eight potsherds for Agni, the giver, the largest lie should give as a
mess to Indra, the bestower, the smallest (he should give) as a mess in boiled (milk) to Visnu
Çipivista. Agni thus generates offspring for him; Indra gives it in crease; Visnu is the sacrifice, and
Çipi cattle; verily on the sacrifice and cattle he rests. He should not offer twice [2]. If he were to
offer now with the first he would make a failure with the second; if with the second now, he would
make a failure with the first; there is no offering at all and no sacrifice, for that cause a son is born
shamefaced and retiring. One offering only should one make; a valiant son is born to him. One
should disregard this and offer twice. With the first (offering) one grasps the mouth of the sacrifice,
and sacrifices with the second. Verily one wins the gods with the first, power with the second;
verily one conquers the world of the gods [3] with the first; the world of men with the second; he
performs several forms of sacrifice. This offering is called 'the friendly'; for him there is in this
world prosperity on whom the moon rises in the west after he hag sacrificed on that day. He who
desires heaven should sacrifice with the Daksayana sacrifice. On the full moon he should offer the
Samnayya; on the new moon he should sacrifice with clotted curds for Mitra and Varuna. On the
full moon (the Soma) is pressed for the gods; during this half-month it is pressed forth for them, and
a cow for Mitra and Varuna is to be slaughtered for them at the new moon. In that [4] he sacrifices
on the day before, he makes the sacrificial enclosure. In that he drives away the calves, he metes out
the seat and the oblation holder. In that he sacrifices, he produces with the gods the pressing day.
He drinks for the half-month Soma in carouse with the gods. In that he sacrifices at the new moon
with clotted curds for Mitra and Varuna, the cow which is slaughtered for the gods becomes his
also. He mounts upon the gods in truth who mounts upon their sacrifice [5]. Just as a great man who
has attained (fortune) desires (and does), so he does. If he misses the mark he becomes worse; if he
does not, he remains the same. One who desires distinction should sacrifice with it, for this sacrifice
has a razor edge, and swiftly he becomes holy or perishes. His vow is: he shall not speak untruth; be
shall not eat meat; he shall not approach for all a woman; they shall not clean his raiment with
cleansing stuff; for all these things the gods do not do.
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The new and the full moon (sacrifices) are the chariot of the gods. He, who having offered the new
and the full moon (sacrifices) Sacrifices with Soma, rests in the chosen resting-place of the gods
which is conspicuous for its chariot (tracks). The new and the full moons are the limbs and joints of
the year; he who knowing thus offers the new and the full moon (sacrifices) thus unites the limbs
and joints of the year. The new and the full moon are the eyes of the year; he who knowing thus
offers the new and the full moon (sacrifices) thus sees with them along the world of heaven [1]. The
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