Plain text of Kanda 2 · iii. 4. 1
The sacrifice of him whose offering is too large is unsuccessful; "The Light-giver, for those that sit in the sky," he says; thus with the aid of the Lord of Prayer and the Creator he makes good the deficiency in the sacrifice. Now evil infests the victim if, being offered to one object, it is greater than normal; "Thou who hast a tawny embryo," he says; thus he sends it to God, to drive away evil. "Bring near, O bringer," he says; thus with the holy power he brings it. "The drop, far extending, of all forms," he says; the drop is offspring and cattle; thus with offspring and cattle he unites him. To the sky the deficiency of the sacrifice goes, to the earth the redundancy; if he were not to appease it, the sacrificer would be ruined; "May the two great ones, sky and earth, for us," he says; thus by means of sky and earth he appeases both the deficiency and the redundancy of the sacrifice; the sacrificer is not ruined. He covers the offering with ashes for the call of "Godspeed"; now this is the embryo of these two; thus in these two he deposits it. If he were to cut off, he would make it redundant; if he were not to cut off, he would fail to cut off from the victim which has been offered; one portion he should cut off from in front of the navel, another behind it; the expiration is in front of the navel, the inspiration behind; thus he cuts off from the whole extent of the victim. He offers to the All-Pervading Cipivista; Cipivista is the redundancy of the sacrifice, the greatness of the victim, the prosperity thereof; thus in the redundant he deposits the redundant, to appease the redundant. The sacrificial fee is gold of eight measures, for the victim has eight feet; the self is the ninth; it serves to win the victim. It is enveloped in a turban in an inner box, for so as it were is the victim, the omentum, the skin, the flesh, the bone; thus he obtains and wins the whole extent of the victim. He for whom in the sacrifice this expiration is offered, by his sacrificing becomes richer.