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SATAPATHA-BRÂHMANA.
9. Now when, in the evening after sunset, he offers two libations, then he firmly plants himself on that Death with those fore-feet of his; and when, in the morning before sunrise, he offers two libations, then he plants himself on that Death with those hind-feet of his. And when he (the sun) rises, then, in rising, he takes him up and thus he (the sacrificer) escapes that Death. This, then, is the release from death in the Agnihotra: and, verily, he who knows that release from death in the Agnihotra, is freed from death again and again.
10. What the arrow-head is to the arrow, that the Agnihotra is to sacrifices. For whither the head of the arrow flies, thither the whole arrow flies : and so are all his works of sacrifice freed by this (Agnihotra) from that Death.
11. Now day and night, revolving, destroy (the fruit of) man's righteousness in yonder world. But day and night are on this side (of the sun) from him (after he has gone up to heaven); and so day and night do not destroy (the fruit of) his righteousness.
12. And as, while standing inside a chariot, one would look down from above on the revolving chariot-wheels, even so does he look down from on high upon day and night: and, verily, day and night destroy not the reward of him who thus knows that release from day and night.
13. [The sacrificer) having gone round the Âhavaniya, (after entering) from the east?, passes
According to Katy. IV, 13, 12 [and Schol.], the householder [after taking out the fires and performing his regular twilight adoration (sandhyâ), that is, muttering the Sâvitrî, Rig-veda III, 62, 10 (see Sat. Br. II, 3, 4, 39), when the sun has half disappeared or until it becomes visible; cf. Asval. Grihyas. XX, 3, 77 passes between the Gârhapatya and Dakshina fires, or south of them,
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