The Aitareya Brahmanam of the Rigveda
Translated by Martin Haug
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FIRST CHAPTER (ADHYAYA). {The Diksayjiiya I^ti, with the Initiatory Rites.)
{The Diksayjiiya I^ti, with the Initiatory Rites.)
1. Agyii, among the gods, has the lowest, Visnu the highest, place; between them stand all the other deities.
They offer the Agni-Visnu rice-calje {Puroddsa) ‘ which belongs to the Diki^aTjiya isti fand put its several parts) on eleven potsherds {hapdla). They offer it (the rice-cake) really to all the deities of this (Isti) without foregoing any one. For Agni is all the deities, and Visnu is all the deities. For these two (divine) bodies, Agni and Visnu, are the two ends ^ of the sacrifice. Thus when they portion out the Agni-Visnu rice-cake, they indeed make at the end (after the ceremony is over) prosper ‘ (all) the gods of this (ceremony).
Here they say: if there be eleven potsherds on which portions of the rice-cake are put, and (only) two deities, Agni and Visnu, what arrangement is there for the two, or what division?
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