[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Vedic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda) › [Brāhmaṇas (ritual exegesis)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana) › [Aitareyabrahmana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya) › 2.22 # Aitareyabrahmana 2.22 Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 2.22 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.2.22) tad āhuḥ: sarpe+t \ na sarpe+t iti \ sarped iti haika āhur, ubhayeṣāṃ vā eṣa devamanuṣyāṇām bhakṣo yad bahiṣpavamānas, tasmād enam abhisaṃgachanta iti vadantas tat-tan nādṛtyaṃ yat sarped, ṛcam eva tat sāmno 'nuvartmānaṃ kuryād. ya enaṃ tatra brūyād: anuvartmā nvā ayaṃ hotā sāmagasyābhūd, udgātari yaśo 'dhād, acyoṣṭāyatanāc, cyoṣyata āyatanād iti, śaśvat tathā syāt tasmāt tatraivāsīno 'numantrayeta yo devānām iha somapītho yajñe barhiṣi vedyā+m \ tasyāpi bhakṣayāmasīty evam u hāsyātmā somapīthād anantarito bhavaty atho brūyān: mukham asi mukham bhūyāsām iti mukhaṃ vā etad yajñasya yad bahiṣpavamāno mukhaṃ sveṣu bhavati, śreṣṭhaḥ svānām bhavati ya evaṃ vedā/surī vai Dirghajihvī devānām prātaḥsavanam avāleṭ, tad vyamādyat. te devāḥ prājijñāsanta, te Mitrāvaruṇāv abruvan: yuvam idaṃ niṣkurutam iti. tau tathety abrūtāṃ, tau vai vo varaṃ vṛṇāvahā iti. vṛṇāthām iti. tāv etam eva varam avṛṇātām: prātaḥsavane payasyāṃ. sainayor eṣācyutā, varavṛtā hy enāyos. tad yad asyai vimattam iva tad asyai samṛddhaṃ, vimattam iva hi tau tayā nirakurutām > ii. 22 (viii. 4). They say 'Should he creep? Should he not creep?' 'He should creep' hold some, saying 'The Bahiṣpavamāna is the food of both gods and men; therefore they go together towards it.' That is not to be regarded. If he were to creep, he would make the Ṛc a follower of the Sāman. If one here were to say of him, 'This Hotṛ has become a follower of the Sāman singer; he has conferred glory on the Udgātṛ; he has fallen from his place; she will fall from her place,' it would certainly be so. Therefore seated here he should recite, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) > 'The Soma drink of the gods here, > At the sacrifice, on the strew, on the altar, > Of this, we are eating.' > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) > So his self is not excluded from the Soma drinking. Moreover he should say, 'Thou art the mouth; may I become the mouth'; the Bahiṣpavamāna is the mouth of the sacrifice; the head among his own he becomes, the chief of his own he becomes, who knows thus. An Asura woman, named Long Tongue, licked the morning pressing of the gods; it became drunk. The gods sought to remedy it; they said to Mitra and Varuṇa, 'Do ye remove this (intoxication).' They replied, 'Be it so; let us choose a boon from you.' 'Choose' (they said). They chose this boon, the milk mess of the morning pressing. This is their fixed portion, for it is chosen as a boon by the two. Thus what by her was made intoxicated, as it were, is made perfect by this (milk mess), for by it the two removed what was intoxicated as it were. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.2.21) - [Next: 2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.2.23) - [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.p10) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya~en-mt.2.22) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (3) - [Aitareyabrāhmaṇabhāṣya (Vedārthaprakāśa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya!sayana.9.p37) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit - [Sukhapradā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya!sadgurusisya) — Ṣaḍguruśiṣya, Sanskrit - [Vedārthaprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya!madhava-alias-sayanacarya) — Mādhava alias Sāyaṇācārya, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (4) - [Āśvalāyanaśrautasūtra (ed. Rāmanārāyaṇa Vidyāratna, Calcutta)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.asvalayana*vidyaratna.0-63.8) — Sanskrit - [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.366) — Arthur A. Macdonell & A. Berriedale Keith, English - [Altindische Grammatik](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.wackernagel-1896.v4.c15.s3.t2.72) — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German - [A Vedic Concordance](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c6.5812) — Maurice Bloomfield, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.2.22) · Pramāṇa