Sukta 12

Mantra 1

तद् यस्यैवं विद्वान् व्रात्य उद्धृतेष्वग्निष्वधिश्रितेऽग्निहोत्रेऽतिथिर्गृहानागच्छेत्

Now, if unto the house of one who thus knoweth a Vratya should come as guest, when the fires have been taken up and the Agnihotra is set in place,

Mantra 2

स्वयमेनमभ्युदेत्य ब्रूयाद् व्रात्याति सृज होष्यामीति

He should himself go forth to meet him and should say: ‘O Vratya, release me; I will make oblation.’

Mantra 3

स चातिसृजेज्जुहुयान्न चातिसृजेन्न जुहुयात्

And if he grant release, he should offer; but if he grant not release, he should not offer.

Mantra 4

स य एवं विदुषा व्रात्येनातिसृष्टो जुहोति

He who, being thus released by the knowing Vratya, maketh oblation,

Mantra 5

प्र पितृयाणं पन्थां जानाति प्र देवयानम्

Forth he discerneth the Path that leadeth to the Fathers; forth also the Path that leadeth to the Gods.

Mantra 6

न देवेष्वा वृश्चते हुतमस्य भवति

His offering is not shorn away among the Gods: his oblation truly becometh (accepted).

Mantra 7

पर्यस्यास्मिंल्लोक आयतनं शिष्यते य एवं विदुषा व्रात्येनातिसृष्टो जुहोति

Round about him, in this very world, a settled station is left secure—who, thus commissioned by a knowing Vrātya, maketh offering.

Mantra 8

अथ य एवं विदुषा व्रात्येनानतिसृष्टो जुहोति

But then—whoso, thus, not commissioned by a knowing Vrātya, maketh offering—

Mantra 9

न पितृयाणं पन्थां जानाति न देवयानम्

He knoweth not the Path that leadeth to the Fathers; he knoweth not the Path that leadeth to the Gods.

Mantra 10

आ देवेषु वृश्चते अहुतमस्य भवति

Unto the Gods it is, as it were, cut away: for him the unoffered oblation comes to be (as offered).

Mantra 11

नास्यास्मिंल्लोक आयतनं शिष्यते य एवं विदुषा व्रात्येनानतिसृष्टो जुहोति

For him, in this world, no footing is left deficient—who, thus knowing, offers, not having loosed the Vrātya against him (nor set him at enmity).