[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) › 10.9.25 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 10.9.25 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 10.9.25 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [10.9.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.9.25) atha yatra paśur ālabhyate / > commensurate with Prajāpati. When the victim is offered, then the lord of the forest is unmoved; the lord of the forest is Agni, he bestows the oblation on the gods; therefore he becomes unmoved; he also has milk as his portion; so Agni becomes a sharer in all the oblations. They say ‘Since the gods possess the solid , then why does the lord of the forest possess the liquid as his share?’ ‘The gods shared the solid of the sacrifice, the fathers the liquid; the victim has, as it were, the fathers as its deities; the milk has the fathers as its deities; therefore is it’, he should reply. They say ‘Why in the Soma sacrifice do they offer two libations for the choosing (of priests), and not in the Haviryajña?’ ‘The Haviryajña is an incomplete sacrifice; the Soma sacrifice is a complete sacrifice; therefore at the Soma sacrifice alone do they offer the two libations for the choosing and not at the Haviryajña’ (is the answer). He offers in the first case with the call of Hail! ‘Acceptable to speech may I become, acceptable to the lord of speech; O divine speech, what of thy speech is sweetest, in that us may he to-day place; hail to Sarasvatī.’ Thus he releases speech; therefore hence onwards speech being released supports the sacrifice; with the mind (he accompanies) the second (libation); for by mind is mind delighted. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 10.9.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.9.24) - [Next: 10.9.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.9.26) - [Up: 10.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.9) ## 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.p11) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.10.9.25) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.9.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.10.9.25) · Pramāṇa