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IX KÂNDA, 5 ADHYAYA, I BRÂHMANA, 7.
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formance, went on his way, saying, “Day by day they shall yoke for you, and day by day they shall unyoke !' Let him therefore yoke day by day, and unyoke day by day.
FIFTH ADHYAYA. First BRÂHMANA. 1. Now, then, as to the taking of milk as fastfood : the initiated should take milk for his fastfood. Once upon a time the nectar of immortality departed from the gods.
2. They said, 'Let us seek for it here by toil and penance !' They sought for it by toil and penance. Having become initiated, they were living on fastmilk, for penance it is when, after becoming initiated, one lives on fast-milk. They heard the sound of it.
3. They said, 'It is indeed coming nearer: let us practise penance still further!' They resorted to three teats : they saw it.
4. They said, 'It is indeed coming nearer : let us practise penance still further !' They resorted to two teats : they saw it still nearer.
5. They said, 'It is indeed coming nearer : let us practise penance still further!' They resorted to one teat: it came nigh unto them, but they could not lay hold of it.
6. They said, “ It has indeed come nigh unto us, but we cannot lay hold of it: let us undergo the whole (practice of) penance!' On the day of preparation they underwent entire abstention from food; for the whole (practice of) penance it is when one abstains from food: let him therefore eat nothing on the day of preparation.
7. On the morrow, having laid hold of it and pressed it (the Soma), they offered (of it) in the fire,
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