One should not revile a scholar, nor strike him, nor draw blood from him; for so great is the sin. "That health and wealth we choose," he says; thus he utters the call Svaga over the sacrifice. "Success to the sacrifice, success to the sacrificer," he says; thus he invokes this blessing. He sacrifices to the provision; thus he places seed; he sacrifices to the Fashioner; seed is placed and the Fashioner moulds forms; he sacrifices to the wives of the angels, to make a pair; he sacrifices to the Radiant One, lord of the house, for support. There is sameness in the sacrifice in that the fore-sacrifices are offered with butter, and the sacrifices to the wives are offered with butter. Having repeated the Rik, of the sacrifices to the wives he offers with a Rik, to prevent sameness, and to make a pairing. The sacrifice has a fivefold prelude and a fivefold end; there are offered five fore-sacrifices; there are four sacrifices to the wives, the fifth is the Samishtayajus; thus they make up five as a prelude, and five as an end.