Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 10.2
Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 10.2
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10.2.1
etā mātrāḥ sampado yūpasya /
These are the measures and concordances of the sacrificial post.
10.2.2
tāsām ekām sampadam abhisampādya yūpam kurvīta / (paśu: yūpa mīmāṃsā)
Having attained one concordance among them, he should make the sacrificial post.
10.2.3
tad u vā āhur na mined yūpam /
As to this they also say: he should not measure the sacrificial post;
10.2.4
aparimita eva syāt /
it should just be unmeasured.
10.2.5
mitam ha vai mitena jayati / (paśu: yūpa mīmāṃsā)
By the measured, one wins the measured;
10.2.6
amitam amitena /
by the unmeasured, the unmeasured,
10.2.7
aparimitasya avaruddhyai /
for the obtaining of the unmeasured.
10.2.8
yatra eva manasā velām manyate tat kurvīta / (paśu: yūpa mīmāṃsā)
Wherever in his mind he deems the limit, that he should make.
10.2.9
tad yūpasya ca vedeś ca iti ha sma āha /
"That applies to both the sacrificial post and the altar," so he used to say.
10.2.10
prajāpatir vai manaḥ /
The mind is indeed Prajāpati;
10.2.11
yajña u vai prajāpatiḥ / (paśu: yūpa mīmāṃsā)
and Prajāpati is the sacrifice.
10.2.12
svayam vai tad yajño yajñasya juṣate /
Then the sacrifice itself enjoys the sacrifice,
10.2.13
yan mano manasaḥ /
when mind [enjoys] mind.
10.2.14
vājapeya yūpa eva avadhṛtaḥ saptadaśa aratniḥ /
The post of the Vājapeya alone is fixed at seventeen cubits;
10.2.15
so aṣṭa aśrir niṣṭhito bhavati /
it is fashioned with eight corners,
10.2.16
sarveṣām eva kāmānām aṣṭyai /
for the attainment of all desires.
10.2.17
atha enam praṇenijati / (paśu: yūpa saṃskāra)
Then they wash it clean.
10.2.18
tad yad eva idam paraśunā krūrī kṛta iva taṣṭa iva bhavati /
Just where it has been, as it were, wounded or chopped by the axe,
10.2.19
tad eva asya etad āpyāyayati tad bhiṣajyati /
there he makes it swell, there he heals it.
10.2.20
atha enam abhyañjati / (paśu: yūpa saṃskāra)
Then they anoint it.
10.2.21
tad yā eva imāḥ puruṣaḥ āpaḥ /
Those waters which are the puruṣa,
10.2.22
tā eva asmiṃs tad dadhāti /
those he thereby bestows upon it.
10.2.23
svabhyaktam svayam eva yajamānaḥ kurvīta /
The sacrificer himself should make it well anointed;
10.2.24
tathā ha yajamāno arūkṣa iva bhavati / (paśu: yūpa saṃskāra)
thus indeed the sacrificer becomes, as it were, unchafed.
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