I bring this water free from all impurity. I bring this immortal Fire. With these I set my foot within this dwelling and take possession of it.
Atharva Veda III, 12, 9
His next forty-eight years constitute the third oblation. The Jagati metre has forty-eight syllables and the third oblation is offered with Jagati hymns. The Adityas are connected with that part of the sacrifice. The pranas are the Adityas; for, verily,they take up (adadate) every-thing.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad III, XVI – Man as a Sacrifice (I), 5
If anything ails him during that third period, he should recite the following mantra: O ye pranas, ye Adityas, extend this my third libation to the full age. May I, who am a sacrifice, not disappear in the midst of the pranas, who are the Adityas. Thus he rises from his illness and becomes free of it.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad III, XVI – Man as a Sacrifice (I), 6
Mahidasa, the son of Itara, knew this and said addressing a disease: O you disease! Why do you afflict me? I shall not die of this pain He lived a hundred and sixteen years. He, too, who knows this lives on to a hundred and sixteen years.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad III, XVI – Man as a Sacrifice (I), 7
When a man hungers, thirsts and abstains from pleasures-these are his initiatory rites.
Sama Veda, Chandogya Upanishad III, XVII – Man as a Sacrifice (II), 1
