[बर] के चिद बरह्ममयं वृक्षं के चिद बरह्ममयं महत के चित पुरुषम अव्यक्तं के चित परम अनामयम मन्यन्ते सर्वम अप्य एतद अव्यक्तप्रभवाव्ययम॥ 48.1 ॥
[bara] ke cida barahmamayaṃ vṛkṣaṃ ke cida barahmamayaṃ mahata ke cita puruṣama avyaktaṃ ke cita parama anāmayama manyante sarvama apya etada avyaktaprabhavāvyayama
English
"The Brahmana said, 'In this connection is cited the following ancient story. Do thou understand, of what kind the institution is of the ten Hotris (sacrificing priests). The ear, the skin, the two eyes, the tongue, the nose, the two feet, the two hands, the genital organ, the lower duct, and speech,— these, O beautiful one, are the ten sacrificing priests. Sound and touch, colour and taste, scent, speech, action, motion, and the discharge of vital seed, of urine and of excreta, are the ten libations. The points of the compass, Quarters, Wind, Sun, Moon, Earth, Fire, Vishnu, Indra, Prajapati, and Mitra, —these, O beautiful one, are the ten (sacrificial) fires. The ten organs (of knowledge and action) are the sacrificing priests. The libations, O beautiful one, are ten. The objects of the senses are the fuel that are cast into these ten fires, 2 as also the mind, which is the ladle, and the wealth (viz., the good and bad acts of the