Aitareyabrahmana 7.17

7.17

tam ṛtvija ūcus:
tvam eva no 'syāhnaḥ saṃsthām adhigachety.
atha haitaṃ Śunaḥśepo 'ñjaḥsavaṃ dadarśa,
tam etābhiś catasṛbhir abhisuṣāva:
yac cid dhi tvaṃ gṛhe-gṛha ity.
athainaṃ droṇakalaśam abhyavanināyoc chiṣṭaṃ camvor bharety
etayarcātha hāsminn anvārabdhe pūrvābhiś catasṛbhiḥ sasvāhākārābhir
juhavāṃ cakārāthainam avabhṛtham abhyavanināya:
tvaṃ no agne varuṇasya vidvān ity etābhyām.
athainam ata ūrdhvam agnim āhavanīyam upasthāpayāṃ cakāra:
śunaś cic chepaṃ niditaṃ sahasrād ity
atha ha Śunaḥśepo Viśvāmitrasyāṅkam āsasāda.
sa hovācājīgartaḥ Sauyavasir:
ṛṣe punar me putraṃ dehīti. neti hovāca Viśvāmitro,
devā vā imam mahyam arāsateti.
sa ha Devarāto Vaiśvāmitra āsa.
tasyaite Kāpileyabābhravāḥ
sa hovacājīgartaḥ Sauyavasis:
tvamvehi vihvayāvahā iti.
sa hovācājīgartaḥ Sauyavasir:
Āṅgiraso janmanāsy Ājīgartiḥ śrutaḥ kaviḥ \
riṣe paitāmahāt tantor māpagāḥ punar ehi mām \\
iti.
sa hovāca Śunaḥśepo:
'darśus tvā śāsahastaṃ na yac chūdreṣv alapsata \
gavāṃ trīṇi śatāni tvam avṛṇīthā mad Aṅgira
iti
sa hovācājīgartaḥ Sanyavasis:
tad vai mā tāta tapati pāpaṃ karma mayā kṛtam \
tad ahaṃ nihnave tubhyam pratiyantu śatā gavām \\
iti.
sa hovāca Śunaḥśepo:
yaḥ sakṛt pāpakaṃ kuryāt kuryād enat tato 'param \
nāpāgāḥ śaudrān nyāyād asaṃdheyaṃ tvayā kṛtam \\
ity
asaṃdheyam iti ha Viśvāmitra upapapāda.
sa hovāca Viśvāmitro.
bhīma eva Sauyavasiḥ śāsena viśiśāsiṣuḥ \
asthān, maitasya putro bhūr mamaivopehi putratām \\
iti
sa hovāca Śunaḥśepaḥ:
sa vai yathā no jñapayā rājaputra tathā vada \
yathaivāṅgirasaḥ sann upeyāṃ tava putratām \\
iti.
sa hovāca Viśvāmitro:
jyeṣṭho me tvam putrāṇāṃ syās tava śreṣṭhā prajā syāt \
upeyā daivam me dāyaṃ tena vai tvopamantraya
iti
sa hovāca Śunaḥśepaḥ:
saṃjānāneṣu vai brūyāḥ sauhardyāya me śriyai \
yathāham bharataṛṣabhopeyāṃ= tava putratām \\
ity.
atha ha Viśvāmitraḥ putrān āmantrayām āsa:
Madhuchandāḥ śṛṇotana Ṛṣabho Reṇur Aṣṭakaḥ \
ye keca bhrātaraḥ sthanāsmai jyaiṣṭhyāya kalpadhvam \\
iti

vii. 17 (xxxiii. 5). To him the priests said ‘Do thou devise for us the performance of the day.’ Then Çunaḥçepa saw the immediate pressing; it

he pressed with these four verses ‘Whatever thou in every house’. Then he carried it to the wooden tub with the verse ‘Take up what remaineth in the bowls’. Then as he took hold of him, he offered with the four preceding verses with calls of Hail! Then he led him to the final bath with the two (verses) ‘Thou, O Agni, knowing Varuṇa’. Then he next made him pay reverence to the Āhavanīya with ‘Çunaḥçepa bound from a thousand’. Then Çunaḥçepa sat on the lap of Viçvāmitra. Ajīgarta Sauyavasi said ‘O seer, give back to me my son’. ‘No’ said Viçvāmitra; ‘the gods have given him to me’. He was Devarāta Vaiçvāmitra, and his descendants are the Kāpileyas and the Bābhravas. Ajīgarta Sauyavasi said ‘Come now; let us invite him’. Ajīgarta Sauyavasi said

‘Thou art an Aṅgiras by birth,
Famed as a sage, son of Ajīgarta;
O seer, thine ancestral line
Abandon not, return to me.’

Çunaḥçepa said

‘They have seen thee knife in hand,
A thing they have not found even among Çūdras.
Three hundreds of kine didst thou,
O Aṅgiras, prefer to me’.

Ajīgarta Sauyavasi said

‘Remorse it causeth me, dear one,
The evil deed done by me,
I would obliterate it in thine eyes;
Thine be the hundreds of kine’.

Çunaḥçepa said

‘He who once doth what is evil
Would do that evil again;
Thou hast not abandoned thy Çūdra way;
What thou hast done is irreparable .’

At the word ‘irreparable’ Viçvāmitra joined in (the discussion ); Viçvāmitra said

‘Dread indeed was Sauyavasi when,
Knife in hand, ready to slaughter;
He stood erect; be not his son;
Become thou a son of mine .’

Çunaḥçepa said

‘As thou hast intimated to us,
So, O son of a king, tell
How being an Aṅgiras
I can become thy son .’

Viçvāmitra said

‘Thou wouldst be the eldest of my sons,
Thy offspring would hold the highest place.
Accept my divine inheritance,
Unto this I invite thee .’

Çunaḥçepa said ‘Bid these agree For friendship and prosperity to me That I may, O bull of the Bharatas, Become thy son .’

Then Viçvāmitra addressed his sons ‘Do thou, Madhuchandas, and do ye hearken, Ṛṣabha, Reṇu, and Aṣṭaka And all their brothers, Do ye accept his superiority .’