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Prajapati desired, 'May I create offspring.' He did penance, he created
serpents. He desired, 'May I create offspring.' He did penance a second time,
he created birds. He desired, 'May I create offspring.' He did penance a third
time, he saw this speech of the consecrated, he spoke it. Then indeed did he
create offspring. In that after undergoing penance he speaks the speech of the
consecrated, the sacrificer thus [1] creates offspring. If one who is
consecrated sees anything impure, the consecration departs from him; his dark
colour, his beauty goes away. 'Mind unbound; eye weak; sun best of lights; O
consecration, forsake me not', he says, and consecration departs not from him,
his dark colour and his beauty go not away. If rain falls on one who is consecrated,
the heavenly waters if unappeased destroy his force, might, consecration [2],
and penance. 'Do ye flowing waters place might (in me), place force, place
might; do not destroy my consecration, nor my penance', he says; verily he
places all that in himself; they do not destroy his force, might, consecration,
or penance. Agni is the divinity of the consecrated man, and he is concealed as
it were from him, when he goes (out), and the Raksases are able to hurt him
[3]. 'From good to better do thou advance; may Brhaspati be thy forerunner', he
says. Brhaspati is the holy power (Brahman) of the gods; verily he grasps hold
of him, and he brings him safely through. 'Here we have come (a-idam) to
the place on earth for sacrifice to the gods', he says, for he comes to the
place on earth for sacrifice, who sacrifices. 'Wherein aforetime all the gods
rejoiced', he says, for all the gods delight in it, in that the Brahmans so do.
'Accomplishing (the rite) with Rc, Saman, and Yajus', he says, for he who
sacrifices accomplishes (the rite) with Rc, Saman, and Yajus. 'Let us rejoice
in fullness of wealth, in sustenance', he says; verily he invokes this
blessing.
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