[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) › 3.23 # Aitareyabrahmana 3.23 Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 3.23 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.3.23) ṛk ca vā idam agre sāma cāstāṃ saiva nāma ṛg āsīd amo nāma sāma. sā vā ṛk sāmopāvadan: mithunaṃ saṃbhavāva prajātyā iti. nety abravīt sāma, jyāyān vā ato mama mahimeti. te dve bhūtvopāvadatāṃ, te na prati cana samavadata. tās tisro bhūtvopāvadaṃs, tat tisṛbhiḥ samabhavad. yat tisṛbhiḥ samabhavat tasmāt tisṛbhiḥ stuvanti, tisṛbhir udgāyanti; tisṛbhir hi sāma sammitaṃ. tasmād ekasya bahvyo jāyā bhavanti, naikasyai bahavaḥ patayo. yad vai tat sā cāmaś ca samabhavatāṃ, tat sāmābhavat, tat sāmnaḥ sāmatvaṃ sāman bhavati ya evaṃ veda yo vai bhavati yaḥ śreṣṭhatām aśnute sa sāman bhavaty, asāmanya iti hi nindanti te vai pañcānyad bhūtvā pañcānyad bhūtvākalpetām: āhāvāś ca hiṃkāraś ca prastāvaś ca prathamā ca ṛg udgīthaś ca, madhyamā ca pratihāraś cottamā ca nidhanaṃ ca vaṣaṭkāraś ca te yat pañcānyad bhūtvā pañcānyad bhūtvākalpetāṃ, tasmād āhuḥ: pāṅkto yajñaḥ pāṅktāḥ paśava iti yad u virājaṃ daśinīm abhisamapadyetāṃ, tasmād āhur: virāji yajño daśinyām pratiṣṭhita ity ātmā vai stotriyaḥ, prajānurūpaḥ, patnī dhāyyā, paśavaḥ pragātho, gṛhāḥ sūktaṃ sa vā asmiṃś ca loke 'muṣmiṃś ca prajayā ca paśubhiś ca gṛheṣu vasati ya evaṃ veda > iii. 23 (xii. 12). The Ṛc and the Sāman were here in the beginning. The Ṛc was called ‘she’, the Sāman ‘he’. The Ṛc said to the Sāman ‘Let us be united for generation.’ ‘No’, replied the Sāman, ‘my greatness is above thine.’ She becoming two spoke (to him); he did not at all consent. Having become three she spoke; with three he united. In that with three he united, therefore with three they chant, with three sing, for with three is the Sāman commensurate. Therefore one (husband) has many wives, but not one (woman) at once many husbands. In that thus he and she were united, thus came into being the Sāma (\*sā-ama\*); that is why the Sāman has its name. He becomes fair who knows thus; he who prospers, who attains pre-eminence, he becomes fair, for as ‘unfair’ men reproach (a man). > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) > They came into order becoming one five, the other five; (namely) the call and the \_hiṅ\_ call, the prelude and the first Ṛc, the principal part and the middle Ṛc, the response and the last Ṛc, the finale and the \_vaṣaṭ\_ call. In that the two came into order becoming one five, the other five, therefore they say 'The sacrifice is fivefold; cattle are fivefold.' In that, further, they made up, as a set of ten, the Virāj, therefore they say 'In the Virāj, as a set of ten, the sacrifice finds support.' The strophe is the self, the antistrophe offspring, the inserted verses the wife, the Pragātha cattle, the hymn the house. He in this and in yonder world abides with offspring and cattle in his home who knows thus. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 3.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.3.22) - [Next: 3.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.3.24) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.3) ## Translations (2) - [Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya~en-keith.3.2.p30) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya~en-mt.3.23) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (1) - [Aitareyabrāhmaṇabhāṣya (Vedārthaprakāśa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya!sayana.14.p96) — Sāyaṇa, Sanskrit ## Linked texts (5) - [Gopathabrāhmaṇa (ed. Gaastra 1919)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.gopatha*gaastra.2.3.20_2) — Sanskrit - [Prayogaratna (Jagadguru Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.prayoga.bhatta.prayogaratna.33.1) — Jagadguru Nārāyaṇa Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit - [Prayogaratna](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.prayoga.prayogaratna.33.1) — Kāśīdīkṣita Yājñika 1625, Sanskrit - [Prayogaratna](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.prayogaratna.33.1) — Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭa 1540, Sanskrit - [Prayogaratna (Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.prayoga.bhatta.prayogaratna-bhatta-narayana.25.1) — Bhaṭṭa Nārāyaṇa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.3.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.3.23) · Pramāṇa