अपरे नियताहाराः प्राणान्प्राणेषु जुह्वति ।
सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः ॥ ३० ॥
सर्वेऽप्येते यज्ञविदो यज्ञक्षपितकल्मषाः ॥ ३० ॥
apare niyatāhārāḥ prāṇānprāṇeṣu juhvati .
sarve’pyete yajñavido yajñakṣapitakalmaṣāḥ .. 30 ..
Others, with regulated food, offer life-breaths in life-breaths. All these are knowers of sacrifice, whose sins are destroyed by sacrifice.
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Regulated : limited. Whatever life-breath has been controlled, into it they sacrifice all other life-breaths; these latter become, as it were, merged in the former.