चतुरौदुम्बरो भवति औदुम्बरः स्रुवः औदुम्बरः चमसः औदुम्बरः इध्मः औदुम्बर्या उपमन्थन्यौ दश ग्राम्याणि धान्यानि भवन्ति व्रीहियवास् तिलमाषा अणुप्रियंगवो गोधूमाश् च मसूराश् च खल्वाश् च खलकुलाश् च तान् पिष्टान् दधनि मधुनि घृते उपसिञ्चति आज्यस्य जुहोति
caturaudumbaro bhavati audumbaraḥ sruvaḥ audumbaraḥ camasaḥ audumbaraḥ idhmaḥ audumbaryā upamanthanyau daśa grāmyāṇi dhānyāni bhavanti vrīhiyavās tilamāṣā aṇupriyaṃgavo godhūmāś ca masūrāś ca khalvāś ca khalakulāś ca tān piṣṭān dadhani madhuni ghṛte upasiñcati ājyasya juhoti
Fourfold is the udumbara [in this rite]: a spoon of udumbara, a cup of udumbara, fuel of udumbara, two stirrers of udumbara. There are ten village grains: rice and barley, sesame and beans, millet and panic-grass, wheat, lentils, peas and vetch. These, ground, he sprinkles with curds, honey and clarified butter — and offers the ghee [into the fire].
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The final recipe of the mantha, with botanical exactness: everything wooden is of udumbara, the fig of abundance (four times over!), and there are ten "village grains" — the full granary of an Āryan household: rice, barley, sesame, beans, millet, panic-grass, wheat, lentils, peas, vetch. Plus a threefold dressing: curds, honey and ghee.
The cup of greatness is composed of everything a household feeds on: the rite of abundance is mixed on abundance itself, as prayer is on breath. So the third brāhmaṇa closes: from the great roads of death to the recipe of a draught of life; the Upaniṣad sees no descent in this: for her there is one ladder, from a grain to Brahman.