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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
7. Having stepped out (of the water) he should certainly prepare twelve messes of rice for the priests; for cooked rice is Pragå pati, and Pragapati is the year, Pragâ pati is the sacrifice: it is the year, the sacrifice, he thus gains, and the sacrifice becomes ready to incline towards him, and he does not become the worse for it.
SEVENTH BRAHMANA. 1. Verily, this is the sacrifice called Strengthful : wherever they worship with this sacrifice, everything indeed becomes strong.
2. Verily, this is the sacrifice called Plenteous : wherever they worship with this sacrifice, everything indeed becomes plentiful.
3. Verily, this is the sacrifice called Obtainment: wherever they worship with this sacrifice, everything indeed becomes obtained.
4. Verily, this is the sacrifice called Distinction: wherever they worship with this sacrifice, everything indeed becomes distinct'.
5. Verily, this is the sacrifice called Severance : wherever they worship with this sacrifice, everything indeed becomes severed.
6. Verily, this is the sacrifice called Foodabounding: wherever they worship with this sacrifice, everything indeed becomes abounding in food.
7. Verily, this is the sacrifice called Sapful :
"Svakarmagu bhâgena sthapitam (? confined respectively to its own functions), comm.
• Harisvâmin supplies 'akâryebhyah'-is kept away from what it is forbidden to do, or from what is not one's business.
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