[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) › [Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki) › 10.2 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 10.2 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 10.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [10.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.1) etā mātrāḥ sampado yūpasya / > These are the measures and concordances of the sacrificial post. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.2) tāsām ekām sampadam abhisampādya yūpam kurvīta / (paśu: yūpa mīmāṃsā) > Having attained one concordance among them, he should make the sacrificial post. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.3) tad u vā āhur na mined yūpam / > As to this they also say: he should not measure the sacrificial post; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.4) aparimita eva syāt / > it should just be unmeasured. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.5) mitam ha vai mitena jayati / (paśu: yūpa mīmāṃsā) > By the measured, one wins the measured; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.6) amitam amitena / > by the unmeasured, the unmeasured, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.7) aparimitasya avaruddhyai / > for the obtaining of the unmeasured. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.10) prajāpatir vai manaḥ / > The mind is indeed Prajāpati; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.11) yajña u vai prajāpatiḥ / (paśu: yūpa mīmāṃsā) > and Prajāpati is the sacrifice. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.12) svayam vai tad yajño yajñasya juṣate / > Then the sacrifice itself enjoys the sacrifice, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.13) yan mano manasaḥ / > when mind \[enjoys\] mind. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.14) vājapeya yūpa eva avadhṛtaḥ saptadaśa aratniḥ / > The post of the Vājapeya alone is fixed at seventeen cubits; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.15) so aṣṭa aśrir niṣṭhito bhavati / > it is fashioned with eight corners, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.16) sarveṣām eva kāmānām aṣṭyai / > for the attainment of all desires. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.17) atha enam praṇenijati / (paśu: yūpa saṃskāra) > Then they wash it clean. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.19) tad eva asya etad āpyāyayati tad bhiṣajyati / > there he makes it swell, there he heals it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.20) atha enam abhyañjati / (paśu: yūpa saṃskāra) > Then they anoint it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.21) tad yā eva imāḥ puruṣaḥ āpaḥ / > Those waters which are the puruṣa, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.22) tā eva asmiṃs tad dadhāti / > those he thereby bestows upon it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.23) svabhyaktam svayam eva yajamānaḥ kurvīta / > The sacrificer himself should make it well anointed; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [10.2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2.24) tathā ha yajamāno arūkṣa iva bhavati / (paśu: yūpa saṃskāra) > thus indeed the sacrificer becomes, as it were, unchafed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.10.2.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.2) · Pramāṇa