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44. By the Lord (of the sacrifice), since Scripture declares a fruit--thus �treya thinks.
A doubt arises whether the meditations on such constituent elements of the sacrifice as the Udg�tha, and so on, are to be performed by the sacrificer (for whose benefit the sacrifice is offered), or by the officiating priests. �treya advocates the former view; on the ground of Scripture showing that in the case of such meditations as the one on the small ether within the heart, fruit and meditation belong to the same person, and that in the case of such meditations as the one on the Udg�tha the fruit belongs to the sacrificer (whence we conclude that the meditation also is his).
Nor can it be said that the sacrificer is not competent for such meditation, for the reason that like the godohana vessel it is connected with an element of the sacrifice (which latter the priests only can perform). For the godohana vessel serves to bring water, and this of course none else can do but the Adhvaryu; while a meditation on the Udg�tha as being the essence of all essences can very well be performed by the Sacrificer--true though it be that the Udg�tha itself can be performed by the Udg�tri priest only.--Against this view the next S�tra declares itself.
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