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XIV KÂNDA, I ADHYAYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 2. 447
33. And, verily, he who either teaches or partakes of this (Pravargya), enters that life, and that light.
The observance of the rule thereof (is as follows). Let him not cover himself (with a garment) whilst the sun shines, lest he should be concealed from that (sun). Let him not spit whilst the sun shines, lest he should spit upon him. Let him not discharge urine whilst the sun shines, lest he discharge it upon him. For so long as he shines, so great he (the sun) is: thinking, 'Lest I should injure him by these (acts),' let him take food at night, after striking a light, whereby it is made to be a form of him who shines yonder. But on this point Åsuri used to say,-One rule the gods indeed keep, to wit, the truth : let him therefore speak nothing but the truth,
SECOND BRÂHMANA.
THE MAKING OF THE Pot. 1. He equips (the Mahåvira) with its equipments ;-inasmuch as he equips it therewith from this and that quarter, that is the equipping nature of the equipments (sambhâra): wheresoever anything of the sacrifice is inherent, therewith he equips it?
2. He gets ready a black antelope-skin,--for the black antelope-skin is the sacrifice 3 : it is at the
See part i, p. 276, note 1. Here, as formerly, it has not been thought desirable to adhere throughout to the technical rendering of sam-bhri'
Pravargya being masculine, the original would, of course, have him' here and throughout, the ceremony (just like the sacrifice in general) being indeed looked upon as a person.
• See part i, p. 23, note 2. In making the Gharma, or Mahavira,
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