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4. Now, then, as to the powers (conferred by the performance) of sacrifices. Verily, he who (regularly) performs the Agnihotra eats food in the evening and in the morning (when he comes to be) in yonder world, for so much sustenance is there in that sacrifice. And he who performs the New and Full-moon sacrifice (eats food) every half-month ; and he who performs the Seasonal sacrifice (does so) every four months; and he who performs the animal sacrifice (twice a year, eats food) every six months; and the Soma-sacrificer once a year; and the builder of the fire-altar at his pleasure eats food every hundred years, or abstains therefrom '; for a hundred years is as much as immortality ?, unending and everlasting : and, verily, for him who knows this, there shall thus be immortality, unending and everlasting; and whatever he as much as touches, as it were, with a reed, shall be for him immortal, unending and everlasting.
SECOND ADHYAYA. First BRÂHMANA. 1. Pragâ pati was desirous of going up to the world of heaven; but Pragâpati, indeed, is all the (sacrificial) animals 8man, horse, bull, ram, and
1 That is to say, the food eaten the first time will sustain him for a hundred years, after which time he may, or may not, take food, being sure of everlasting life and a godlike nature.
Or, perhaps, for so long lasts the Amrita (the food of the immortals);-agnim kitavân purushas tu satasamkhyâkeshu samvatsareshu teshu kâmam aparimitam asnâti yato yâvantah satam samvatsaras tâvad amritam devatvaprapakam anantam aparimitam annam bhavati. Say.
* See VI, 2, I, 15 seq.
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