[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) › 6.19 # Aitareyabrahmana 6.19 Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 6.19 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.6.19) tato vā etāṃs trīn sampātān maitrāvaruṇo viparyāsam ekaikam ahar-ahaḥ śaṃsaty evā tvām indra vajrinn atreti prathame 'hani, yan na indro jujuṣe yac ca vaṣṭīti dvitīye, kathā mahām avṛdhat kasya hotur iti tṛtīye trīn eva sampātān brāhmaṇācchaṃsī viparyāsam ekaikam ahar-ahaḥ śaṃsatī,ndraḥ pūrbhid ātirad dāsam arkair iti prathame 'hani, ya eka id dhavyaś carṣaṇīnām iti dvitīye, yas tigmaśṛṅgo vṛṣabho na bhīma iti tṛtīye trīn eva sampātān achāvāko viparyāsam ekaikam ahar-ahaḥ śaṃsatī,mām ū ṣu prabhṛtiṃ sātaye dhā iti prathame 'hanī,chanti tvā somyāsaḥ sakhāya iti dvitīye, śāsad vahnir duhitur naptyaṃ gād iti tṛtīye tāni vā etāni nava trīṇi cāharahaḥśasyāni tāni dvādaśa sampadyante: dvādaśa vai māsāḥ saṃvatsaraḥ, saṃvatsaraḥ Prajāpatiḥ, Prajāpatir yajñas. tat saṃvatsaram Prajāpatiṃ yajñam āpnuvanti, tat saṃvatsare Prajāpatau yajñe 'har-ahaḥ pratitiṣṭhanto yanti tāny antareṇāvāpam āvaperann anyūṅkhyā virājo vaimadīś caturthe 'hani, paṅktīḥ pañcame, pārucchepīḥ ṣaṣṭhe 'tha yāny ahāni mahāstomāni syuḥ: ko adya naryo devakāma iti maitrāvaruṇa āvapeta, vane na vā yo ny adhāyi cākann iti brāhmaṇācchaṃsy, ā yāhy arvāṅ upa vandhureṣṭhā ity achāvāka etāni vā āvapanāny. etair vā āvapanair devāḥ svargam lokam ajayann etair ṛṣayas. tathaivaitad yajamānā etair āvapanaiḥ svargaṃ lokaṃ jayanti > vi. 19 (xxix. 3). These three Saṃpāta (hymns) the Maitrāvaruṇa recites one by one day by day, alternating their order; on the first day (he recites) ‘Thee O Indra, with the thunderbolt’, on the second ‘That which of ours Indra rejoiceth in and desireth’, on the third ‘How? of what Hotṛ hath he made great?’ Three Saṃpātas the Brāhmaṇācchaṅsin recites one by one day by day, alternating their order, on the first day ‘Indra, breaker of citadels, overcame the Dāsa with his beams’, on the second ‘Who alone is to be invited by mortals’, on the third ‘With sharp horns, like a terrible wild beast’. Three Saṃpātas the Achāvāka recites one by one, day by day, alternating their order, on the first day ‘This offering do thou make attain’, on the second ‘Thy comrades, Soma-loving, desire thee’, on the third ‘Ordering the bearer hath gone to the grandson of the daughter’. These number nine; there are three to be recited every day; these make up twelve; the year has twelve months; Prajāpati is the year; the sacrifice is Prajāpati; thus they obtain the year and Prajāpati; thus they continue day by day to find support in the year, in Prajāpati, in the sacrifice. Between them they should insert an insertion, Virāj verses and verses by Vimada without repetition of \*o\* on the fourth day, Paṅkti verses on the fifth, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 6.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.6.18) - [Next: 6.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.6.20) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.6) ## Translations (2) - [Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya~en-keith.6.4.p6) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya~en-mt.6.19) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Gopathabrāhmaṇa (ed. Gaastra 1919)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.gopatha*gaastra.2.6.1_10) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.6.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.6.19) · Pramāṇa