[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) › 11.5.1 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 11.5.1 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 11.5.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [11.5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.5.1) śuddhaḥ praṇavaḥ syāt prajā kāmānām / > xi. 5. The Praṇava should be uttered pure for those who desire offspring, with \*m\* at the end for those who desire support. ‘The Praṇava should have \*m\* at the end’, some say, but the rule is that it should be used pure. The Praṇava is investigated as to the fact that ‘Here it is pure, here it is in full form’. ‘The Praṇava should be pure in the middle of Çastras and of recitations’, Kauṣītaki used to say. This is continuity. It should have \*m\* at the end for the sake of a pause; the pause is a support; verily (it serves) for a support. Verily (the two serve) to obtain both desires. These are the carryings of the metres; they carry the subsequent over the preceding metre. No harm befalls him, who by the metre is carried over the metre. ‘When he is passing over, he should pierce with his mind as it were him whom he hates; in the fractures of the metre he either goes to ruin or is crushed,’ so he used to say. The Paṅktis at the end of the offerings he recites with the same endings; the end is sap, the metres are cattle; verily thus the metres end in sap; cattle ending as it were rejoice in the good grass. This is a Virāj with one syllable short; with one twice repeated it is exactly a Virāj; with one thrice repeated there is one over the Virāj. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 11.4.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.4.15) - [Next: 11.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.5.2) - [Up: 11.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.5) ## Translations (2) - [Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-keith.11.p9) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.11.5.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.5.1) · Pramāṇa