हिन्दी
Those who believe in Brahman say: The morning savana is for the Vasus, the midday savana is for the Rudras, and the third, the evening savana is for the Ādityas and the Viśvadevas (i.e., all the gods and goddesses).
Where then is the place for the yajamāna (one who performs a sacrifice)? How can he who does not know that place perform a sacrifice? He who knows can perform a sacrifice.
Before starting the morning chant, the sacrificer sits behind the Gārhapatya fire facing north and sings the Sāma about the Vasus.
O Fire, please open the door for us—that is, make the path clear—so that we may see you for obtaining full control of the earth.
Then the sacrificer begins the offerings (with this mantra): ‘O Agni, you are in this world. I salute you. Please acquire the right world for me, who am performing a sacrifice. I am ready to go to a world appropriate for one who performs sacrifices.
‘I, the yajamāna, have run the full course of my life in this world.’ With these words, he will say, ‘Svāhā,’ (and offer his oblation). Then he will rise, saying, ‘Please unbolt the door to the world for which I am destined.’ The Vasus then give him the ownership of the earth, which is the result of the savana performed in the morning.
Before starting the midday savana, the yajamāna sits behind the Dakṣiṇāgni fire, facing north. He then sings the Sāma addressed to the Rudras.
O Fire, please open the door for us—that is, make the path clear—so that we may see you for obtaining full control of the world of Virāṭ.
Then the sacrificer begins the offerings [with this mantra]: ‘O Vāyu, you are in the mid-region. I salute you. Please acquire the right world for me, who am performing a sacrifice. I am ready to go to a world appropriate for one who performs sacrifices’.
‘I, the yajamāna, have run the full course of my life in this world.’ With these words, he will say, ‘Svāhā,’ (and offer his oblation). Then he will rise, saying, ‘Please unbolt the door to the world for which I am destined.’ The Rudras then give him the ownership of the mid-region, which is the result of the savana performed at midday.
Before starting the third (i.e., the evening) savana, the yajamāna sits behind the Āhavanīya fire, facing the north. He then sings the Sāma addressed to the Ādityas and the Viśvadevas.
(Addressing the Ādityas:) ‘O Fire, please open the door to the world (i.e., Swarg-Lok) for us so that we may see you for attaining sovereignty’.
The earlier verse was addressed to the Ādityas. Now, addressing the Viśvadevas, (the yajamāna says:) ‘O Fire, please open the door to the world [i.e., Swarg-Loka] for us so that we may see you for attaining sovereignty’.
Then the sacrificer begins the offerings with this mantra: ‘Salutations to those who are in Swarg-Loka and other Loka's (worlds), to the Ādityas (Sun/Stars) and the Viśvadevas. May I acquire the yajamāna’s world’.
‘I am ready to go to a world appropriate for one who performs sacrifices. I will live in this world after my death.’ Saying ‘Svāhā,’ he completes the sacrifice. Then he rises, praying, ‘May the bolt be removed’.
The Ādityas and the Viśvadevas then present to him, the sacrifices, the result of the third savana. He who knows this knows the true purport of the sacrifice.
