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It they surrounded with Agni; it the Maruts blew upon; Agni could not make it move; they surrounded it with Agni Vaiçvānara; the Maruts blew upon it; then Agni Vaiçvānara caused it to move. The first part of the seed that was kindled up became yonder Āditya; the second became Bhṛgu; him Varuṇa took; therefore is Bhṛgu descended from Varuṇa. The third (part), that was brilliant (adīdet) as it were, became the Ādityas. The coals became the Aṅgirases; in that the coals after being quenched blazed forth again, Bṛhaspati came into being. The extinguished coals became black cattle; the reddened earth ruddy (cattle). The ash which there was crept about in diverse forms, the buffalo, the Gayal, the antelope, the camel, the ass, and these ruddy animals. To them this god said ‘Mine is this, mine is what remains.’ Him they deprived of a claim by this verse which is recited as addressed to Rudra, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) > ‘O father of the Maruts, let thy goodwill approach us; > Do thou not sever us from the sight of the sun; > Do thou, hero, be merciful to our steeds’; > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) > so should he say, not ‘Towards us’ (in the last line); this god is not likely to attack offspring then; > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) > ‘May we be multiplied with children, O thou of Rudra,’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) > so he should say, not ‘O Rudra’, to avoid the use of the actual name. Or rather he should recite ‘Weal for us let him make’; with ‘weal’ he begins, for weal for all. ‘For men, for women, for cows’ (he says); men are males, women are females; (verily it serves) for weal for all. This verse, being without mention (of the name of the deity) though addressed to Rudra, is appeased; with full life, for fullness of life, a full life he lives who knows thus. It is a Gāyatrī; the Gāyatrī is holy power; verily thus with the holy power he honours him. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 3.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.3.33) - [Next: 3.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.3.35) - [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.3.3.p18) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya~en-mt.3.34) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (3) - [Aitareyabrāhmaṇabhāṣya (Vedārthaprakāśa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya!sayana.16.p1) — 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 (15) - [Baudhāyanaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.baudhayana.8.15.255.17) — Baudhāyana, Sanskrit - [Hiraṇyakeśiśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.hiranyakesi.9.4.10.o) — Hiraṇyakeśin, Sanskrit - [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s12.147) — Arthur A. 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