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These nine (verses) he recites without omission. ‘Send forth our sacrifice with divine offering’ (he says) as tenth. ‘Winding hitherward those of two streams’ (he says), when the Ekadhanā (waters) are turned hitherward; ‘What time the waters are seen coming forward’ (he says) when they are being seen; ‘May the cows with milk, eager for the end’ (he says), when they are coming up; ‘Some come together, others come up’ (he says) when they come together. The waters were in conflict, ‘we shall first bear the sacrifice; we’; both these Vasatīvarī waters, which are drawn on the previous day and the Ekadhanā (waters which are drawn) in the morning. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) > These Bhṛgu saw, ‘These waters are in conflict.’ Them with this verse he brought into harmony, ‘Some come together, others come up.’ They came into harmony; in harmony they support his sacrifice who knows thus. ‘Like the waters divine they come up to the vessel of the offering’ he recites when they are being poured together into the Hotṛ’s goblet, both the Vasatīvarī and the Ekadhanā (waters). ‘Hast thou seen the waters, O Adhvaryu?’ the Hotṛ asks the Adhvaryu; the sacrifice is the waters; verily thus he says ‘Hast thou seen the sacrifice?’ ‘Yea, they have indeed condescended’ the Adhvaryu replies; verily thus he says ‘Look upon them.’ ‘In these, O Adhvaryu, shalt thou press for Indra the Soma rich in honey, full of rain, bitter at the end, thick meanwhile, for him with the Vasus, the Rudras, the Ādityas, the Ṛbhus, the Vibhus, with Vāja, with Bṛhaspati, with the All-gods, of which having drunk, Indra shall slay the foes; he shall overcome their tribes’; (so saying) he rises to meet (them); the waters are to be met; men rise to meet a superior when he comes; therefore is he to rise to meet them. He must turn round behind them; they turn round behind a superior; therefore must he turn round behind them. As he recites he should move after them; for even if another be the sacrificer > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) > still fame will fall to the Hotṛ; therefore should he move after them as he recites. Reciting this (verse ), ‘The mothers go with the paths,’ should he move after. ‘The sisters of those that sacrifice, mixing the milk with honey’ (he says) who being without taste of the honey drink desires to win fame. ‘Those that are in the sun or with which is the sun’ (he says ) who desires brilliance and splendour. ‘I invite the waters, the goddesses, where our kine drink’ (he says ) who desires cattle. Reciting all these should he move after, to win these desires. These desires he wins who knows thus. ‘They have come rich with living gifts’ he recites as the Vasatīvarī and the Ekadhanā waters are being set down; ‘They have come, the waters, eager to this strew,’ when they have been set down. With this he concludes. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.2.19) - [Next: 2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.2.21) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.2) ## Translations (2) - [Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya~en-keith.2.3.p4) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya~en-mt.2.20) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (1) - [Aitareyabrāhmaṇabhāṣya (Vedārthaprakāśa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya!sayana.9.p18) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (3) - [Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.12.2.7) — Kauṣītaki, Sanskrit - [Śāṅkhāyanaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.sankhayana.6.7.10) — Śāṅkhāyana, Sanskrit - [Āśvalāyanaśrautasūtra (ed. Rāmanārāyaṇa Vidyāratna, Calcutta)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.asvalayana*vidyaratna.0-62.11) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.2.20) · Pramāṇa