Verse 47

⁴⁷Vedic work is of two kinds, the going out and the turning back. By the going out a man comes round again; by the turning back he reaches what does not die. ⁴⁸Cruel, made of things, done out of wanting, giving no peace: the fire offering and the rest, the new moon and full moon rites, the four-month rites, the animal and the soma. ⁴⁹This is the sacrifice called the going out, both what is poured into the fire and what is poured beside it; and the works of merit, whose marks are temples, gardens, wells and means of living. ⁵⁰The subtle ripening of what was offered, and smoke, night, the waning fortnight, the sun's southern road, the moon, the new moon, plants and creepers,

⁵¹food and seed: this, lord of the earth, is the road of the fathers, and being born again. Becoming one thing after another in order, a man is born here.