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# Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 10.10

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 10.10

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [10.10.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.10.1)

tasmād acyuto bhavati /

> Therefore he is unmovable.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.10.2)

sa u vai payo bhājanaḥ /

> And he indeed is the recipient of milk.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.10.3)

atra agniḥ sarveṣu havihṣu bhāgī bhavati / (paśu: vanaspati yāga)

> Here Agni becomes a sharer in all oblations.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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)?'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.10.5)

dhāma vai devā yajñasya abhajanta /

> The gods indeed took the abode of the sacrifice;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.10.6)

pāthaḥ pitaraḥ /

> the fathers took the place.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.10.7)

pitṛ devatya iva vai paśuḥ /

> The animal \[victim\] has the fathers as deities, as it were.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.10.8)

pitṛ devatyam payaḥ /

> Milk has the fathers as deities.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.10.9)

tasmād iti brūyāt / (paśu: vanaspati yāga)

> 'Therefore \[it is so\],' he should say.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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?'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.10.14)

juṣṭo vāco bhūyāsam juṣṭo vācaspater devi vāk /

> 'May I be pleasing to Speech; pleasing to the Lord of Speech, divine Speech!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.10.16)

vācam tad utsṛjate /

> He thereby releases speech.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.10.17)

tasmād vāg ata ūrdhva utsṛṣṭā yajñam vahati / (paśu: pravṛta āhuti)

> Therefore, speech, released from this point onward, conveys the sacrifice.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.10.18)

manasā uttarām /

> \[He offers\] the second \[offering\] with the mind.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.10.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.10.19)

manahā hi manaḥ prītam manaḥ prītam / (paśu: pravṛta āhuti)

> For pleased by the mind is the mind, pleased by the mind.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.10.10.1) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Kalpaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.post.vidhi.mantra.kalpah.2.1.9.8) — Sanskrit

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