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# Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 10.6

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 10.6

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [10.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.1)

tam āhur dvirūpaḥ syāt śuklam ca kṛṣṇam ca aho rātrayo rūpeṇa iti /

> Regarding it, they say: 'It should be of two colours, white and black, according to the form of day and night.'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.2)

śuklam vā ca lohitam c agnīṣomayo rūpeṇa iti / (paśu: paśau prayāja anuyājāh)

> Or white and red, according to the form of Agni and Soma.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.3)

tasya ekādaśa prayājā ekādaśa anuyājā ekādaśa upayajaḥ.(upayājah?) / (paśu: paśau prayāja anuyājāh)

> It has eleven fore-offerings, eleven after-offerings, eleven supplementary offerings.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.4)

tāni trayas triṃśat /

> They are thirty-three.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.5)

trayas triṃśad vai sarve devāḥ /

> All the gods are indeed thirty-three,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.6)

sarveṣām eva devānām prītyai / (paśu: paśau prayāja anuyājāh)

> verily for the gratification of all the gods.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.7)

prāṇā vai prayājā apānā anuyājāḥ /

> The fore-offerings are the out-breathings, the after-offerings the in-breathings.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.8)

tasmāt samā bhavanti /

> Therefore they are equal,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.9)

samānā hi ime prāṇa apānāḥ / (paśu: paśau prayāja anuyājāh)

> for these out-breathings and in-breathings are equal.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.10)

tad āhuḥ kasmād ṛcā prayājeṣu yajati pratīkair anuyājeṣv iti /

> On this they say: 'Why does he sacrifice with a verse at the fore-offerings, \[but\] with opening phrases at the after-offerings?'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.11)

retaḥ siktir vai prayājāḥ / (paśu: paśau prayāja anuyājāh)

> The fore-offerings are the emission of semen;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.12)

retodheyam anuyājāḥ /

> the after-offerings are the placement of semen.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.13)

tasmād ṛcā prayājeṣu yajati pratīkair anuyājeṣv iti / (paśu: paśau prayāja anuyājāh)

> Therefore he sacrifices with a verse at the fore-offerings, \[and\] with opening phrases at the after-offerings.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.14)

atha yat sarvam uttamam āha /

> Now, as to his reciting the last verse in full,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.15)

svarga eva tal loke yajamānam dadhāti / (paśu: paśau prayāja anuyājāh)

> he thereby places the sacrificer in the heavenly world.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.16)

āprībhir āprīṇāti /

> He gladdens with the Āprī verses.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.17)

sarveṇa ha vā eṣa ātmanā sarveṇa manasā yajñam sambharate yo yajate / (paśu: paśau prayāja anuyājāh)

> Whoever sacrifices gathers the sacrifice with his whole self, with his whole mind;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.18)

tasya riricāna iva ātmā bhavati /

> his self becomes, as it were, emptied.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.19)

tam asya etābhir āprībhir āprīṇāti / (paśu: paśau prayāja anuyājāh)

> He gladdens it with these Āprī verses.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.20)

tad yad āprīṇāti /

> Because he gladdens \[āprīṇāti\],  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [10.6.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.6.21)

tasmād āpryo nāma / (paśu: paśau prayāja anuyājāh)

> therefore are they called Āprī verses.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> called Āprīs (fillers). He surrounds the animal with fire, to smite away the Rakṣases; Agni is the smiter away of the Rakṣases; he carries the fire round thrice from left to right; that is as if Agni were to put three forts. Therefore, ‘Go round again’ he should say to the Agnīdh, if he desire of a man, ‘May he not fall away.’  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

## Translations (2)

- [Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-keith.10.p6) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.10.6.1) — English, machine translation

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