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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
Âyus', from out of the Visve Devâh the Dasarâtra, from out of the regions the Prishthyashadaha of the Dasarâtra, from out of these worlds the Khandoma days.
3. From out of the year (they fashioned) the tenth day, from out of Pragâpati the Mahâvrata, and from out of the world of heaven the Udayaniya Atirâtra :-such was the birth of the Year; and, verily, whosoever thus knows that birth of the Year becomes more (and more) glorious to (the end of) it, he becomes possessed of a (new) body, he becomes the Year, and, as the Year, he goes to the gods.
THIRD BRAHMANA.
1. Now, when they are initiated they indeed offer sacrifice to the deities Agni and Vishnu: they become the deities Agni and Vishnu, and attain to fellowship and co-existence with Agni and Vishnu.
2. And when they perform the opening sacrifice they indeed offer sacrifice to the deity Aditi: they become the deity Aditi, and attain to fellowship and co-existence with Aditi.
3. And when they proceed with the buying (of Soma-plants) they indeed offer sacrifice to the deity Soma: they become the deity Soma, and attain to fellowship and co-existence with Soma.
For the differences between the three modes of chanting the Stotras of the Agnish/oma and Ukthya Soma-sacrifices-viz. Gyotishioma, Gosh/oma, Ayush/oma-see part iv, p. 287,
note 2.
* The Dasarâtra, or central ten days of the Dvâdasâha (twelve days' period), consists of a Prishthya shadaha, three Khandoma days (of the Ukthya order), and a final (tenth) Atyagnish/oma day called Avivákya.
For the Sacrificer as father Time, see part iv, introd., p. xxii.
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