Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 10.10
Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 10.10
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10.10.1
tasmād acyuto bhavati /
Therefore he is unmovable.
10.10.2
sa u vai payo bhājanaḥ /
And he indeed is the recipient of milk.
10.10.3
atra agniḥ sarveṣu havihṣu bhāgī bhavati / (paśu: vanaspati yāga)
Here Agni becomes a sharer in all oblations.
10.10.4
tad āhur yad dhāma bhājo devā atha kasmāt pātho bhāg vanaspatir iti / (paśu: vanaspati yāga)
On this they say: 'Since the gods share the abode (dhāman), why then is Vanaspati a sharer of the place (pāthas)?'
10.10.5
dhāma vai devā yajñasya abhajanta /
The gods indeed took the abode of the sacrifice;
10.10.6
pāthaḥ pitaraḥ /
the fathers took the place.
10.10.7
pitṛ devatya iva vai paśuḥ /
The animal [victim] has the fathers as deities, as it were.
10.10.8
pitṛ devatyam payaḥ /
Milk has the fathers as deities.
10.10.9
tasmād iti brūyāt / (paśu: vanaspati yāga)
'Therefore [it is so],' he should say.
10.10.10
tad āhuḥ kasmāt saumya eva adhvare pravṛta āhutī juhvati na havir yajña iti / (paśu: pravṛta āhuti)
On this they say: 'Why do they offer the two election offerings only in the Soma sacrifice, and not in the oblation sacrifice?'
10.10.11
akṛtsnā eva vā eṣā deva yajyā yadd havir yajñaḥ /
Incomplete indeed is that worship of the gods which is the oblation sacrifice.
10.10.12
atha eṣā eva kṛtsnā deva yajñā yat saumyo adhvaraḥ / (paśu: pravṛta āhuti)
Now, complete is this worship of the gods which is the Soma sacrifice.
10.10.13
tasmāt saumya eva adhvare pravṛta āhutī juhvati na havir yajña iti / (paśu: pravṛta āhuti)
Therefore they offer the two election offerings only in the Soma sacrifice, and not in the oblation sacrifice.
10.10.14
juṣṭo vāco bhūyāsam juṣṭo vācaspater devi vāk /
'May I be pleasing to Speech; pleasing to the Lord of Speech, divine Speech!
10.10.15
yat te vāco madhumattamam tasmin no adya dhāḥ svāhā sarasvatyā iti purastāt svāhā kāreṇa juhoti / (paśu: pravṛta āhuti)
What is sweetest of your speech, in that place us today! Svāhā to Sarasvatī!' — with this he offers with the svāhā-call at the beginning.
10.10.16
vācam tad utsṛjate /
He thereby releases speech.
10.10.17
tasmād vāg ata ūrdhva utsṛṣṭā yajñam vahati / (paśu: pravṛta āhuti)
Therefore, speech, released from this point onward, conveys the sacrifice.
10.10.18
manasā uttarām /
[He offers] the second [offering] with the mind.
10.10.19
manahā hi manaḥ prītam manaḥ prītam / (paśu: pravṛta āhuti)
For pleased by the mind is the mind, pleased by the mind.
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