Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 11.7

11.7.1

triḥ saptāni kratūnām chandāṃsy anvāha /

He recites thrice-seven metres of the rites.

11.7.2

tad ekaviṃśatiḥ /

That makes twenty-one.

11.7.3

ekaviṃśo vai catuṣṭomaḥ stomānām paramaḥ / (soma: prātar anuvāka)

The twenty-one-fold catuṣṭoma is the highest among the stomas.

11.7.4

tat paramam stomam āpnoti /

Thereby he attains the highest stoma.

11.7.5

yad u eva ekaviṃśatiḥ / (soma: prātar anuvāka)

And also because there are twenty-one:

11.7.6

dvādaśa māsāḥ pañca ṛtavas traya ime lokāḥ /

twelve months, five seasons, these three worlds,

11.7.7

asāv āditya evaviṃśaḥ / (soma: prātar anuvāka)

[and] yonder sun is the twenty-first.

11.7.8

tena eva tas salokatāyām yajamānam adhyūhati /

By this he elevates the sacrificer into having the same world with him.

11.7.9

tad āhur yad imā havir yajñasya vā paśor vā sāmidhenyo atha kāḥ saumyasya adhvarasya iti / (soma: prātar anuvāka)

Now they say: 'Whereas these are the kindling verses of the oblation sacrifice or of the animal [sacrifice], which are those of the Soma sacrifice?'

xi. 7. They say 'Seeing that there are these kindling verses of the Haviryajña or the animal sacrifice, then what are those of the Soma sacrifice?' 'The morning litany', he should reply, for by the syllables of the others he seeks to obtain the year, by the Ṛcs here. A hundred only should he recite; man has a hundred (years of) life; verily thus he confers life upon him. He should recite a hundred and twenty; the days of a season are one hundred and twenty; thus he obtains the season; by the season the year, and the desires that are in the year. He should recite three hundred and sixty; the days of the year are three hundred and sixty; verily (they serve) to obtain the year. He should recite seven hundred and twenty; seven hundred and twenty are there of the days and nights of the year; thus he obtains the days and nights of the year. A thousand should he recite; a thousand is all, the morning litany is all; thus all he obtains with all, who knows thus. But Kauṣītaki used to say 'The morning litany is Prajāpati; Prajāpati is incommensurable; who ought to measure it?' This is the rule.

11.7.10

prātar anuvāka iti brūyāt /

He should say: 'The prātar-anuvāka.'

11.7.11

akṣarair ha vā itarāsām saṃvatsaram upepsati / (soma: prātar anuvāka)

By syllables indeed one seeks to attain the year in the other [sacrifices];

11.7.12

ṛbhir iha /

here, by verses.

11.7.13

śata mātram anubrūyāt /

He should recite a measure of a hundred.

11.7.14

śata āyur vai puruṣaḥ /

A hundred years indeed is a man's life.

11.7.15

āyur eva asmiṃs tad dadhāti / (soma: prātar anuvāka)

He thereby places life in him.

11.7.16

viṃśati śatam anubrūyāt /

He should recite a hundred and twenty.

11.7.17

viṃśati śatam vā ṛtor ahāni /

A hundred and twenty are the days of a season.

11.7.18

tad ṛtum āpnoti / (soma: prātar anuvāka)

Thereby he attains the season,

11.7.19

ṛtunā saṃvatsaram /

through the season, the year,

11.7.20

ye ca saṃvatsare kāmāḥ /

and whatever desires are in the year.

11.7.21

trīṇi ṣaṣṭi śatāny anubrūyāt / (soma: prātar anuvāka)

He should recite three hundred and sixty.

11.7.22

trīṇi vai ṣaṣṭi śatāni saṃvatsarasya ahnām /

Three hundred and sixty are the days of the year.

11.7.23

tat saṃvatsarasya ahāny āpnoti / (soma: prātar anuvāka)

Thereby he obtains the days of the year.

11.7.24

saptaviṃśati śatāny anubrūyāt /

He should recite seven hundred and twenty [verses].

11.7.25

sapta vai viśaṃti śatāni saṃvatsarasya aho rātrāṇām / (soma: prātar anuvāka)

Seven hundred and twenty are the days and nights of the year.

11.7.26

tat saṃvatsarasya aho rātrān āpnoti / (soma: prātar anuvāka)

Thereby he obtains the days and nights of the year.