[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) › 6.29 # Aitareyabrahmana 6.29 Aitareyabrāhmaṇa 6.29 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.6.29) Sukīrtiṃ śaṃsati. devayonir vai Sukīrtis, tad yajñād devayonyai yajamānam prajanayati Vṛṣākapiṃ śaṃsaty. ātmā vai Vṛṣākapir, ātmānam evāsya tat kalpayati taṃ nyūṅkhayaty. annaṃ vai nyūṅkhas, tad asmai jātāyānnādyam pratidadhāti yathā kumārāya stanaṃ sa pāṅkto bhavati. pāṅkto 'yam puruṣaḥ pañcadhā vihito: lomāni tvaṅ māṃsam asthi majjā. sa yāvān eva puruṣas, tāvantaṃ yajamānaḥ saṃskaroti tam brāhmaṇācchaṃsī janayitvāchāvākāya samprayachaty: etasya tvam pratiṣṭhāṃ kalpayeti > vi. 29 (xxx. 3). He recites the Sukīrti (hymn); the Sukīrti hymn is a birthplace of the gods; thus he produces the sacrificer from the sacrifice as a divine birthplace. He recites the Vṛṣākapi (hymn); the Vṛṣākapi is the body; verily thus he makes a body for it. He recites it with the sound \*o\*; the sound \*o\* is food; thus to it on birth he gives food as the breast to a child. It is in Paṅktī verses; man is fivefold and arranged in five divisions, hair, skin, flesh, bone, marrow. As great as is man, so great does he make the sacrificer. Having produced him the Brāhmaṇācchaṅsin hands him over to the Achāvāka (saying) ‘Do thou fashion a support for him’. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 6.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.6.28) - [Next: 6.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.6.30) - [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.6.5.p6) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya~en-mt.6.29) — English, machine translation ## Commentaries (3) - [Aitareyabrāhmaṇabhāṣya (Vedārthaprakāśa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya!sayana.34.p19) — 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 (3) - [A Vedic Concordance](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c6.7118) — Maurice Bloomfield, English - [Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.coomaraswamy-1942.c2.s1.76) — Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, English - [Ṣaṣṭhapañcikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.sasthapancika.p28) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.6.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.6.29) · Pramāṇa