[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) › 11.7 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 11.7 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 11.7 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [11.7.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.1) triḥ saptāni kratūnām chandāṃsy anvāha / > He recites thrice-seven metres of the rites. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.2) tad ekaviṃśatiḥ / > That makes twenty-one. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.3) ekaviṃśo vai catuṣṭomaḥ stomānām paramaḥ / (soma: prātar anuvāka) > The twenty-one-fold catuṣṭoma is the highest among the stomas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.4) tat paramam stomam āpnoti / > Thereby he attains the highest stoma. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.5) yad u eva ekaviṃśatiḥ / (soma: prātar anuvāka) > And also because there are twenty-one: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.6) dvādaśa māsāḥ pañca ṛtavas traya ime lokāḥ / > twelve months, five seasons, these three worlds, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.7) asāv āditya evaviṃśaḥ / (soma: prātar anuvāka) > \[and\] yonder sun is the twenty-first. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.8) tena eva tas salokatāyām yajamānam adhyūhati / > By this he elevates the sacrificer into having the same world with him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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?' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 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. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [11.7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.10) prātar anuvāka iti brūyāt / > He should say: 'The prātar-anuvāka.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.11) akṣarair ha vā itarāsām saṃvatsaram upepsati / (soma: prātar anuvāka) > By syllables indeed one seeks to attain the year in the other \[sacrifices\]; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.12) ṛbhir iha / > here, by verses. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.13) śata mātram anubrūyāt / > He should recite a measure of a hundred. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.14) śata āyur vai puruṣaḥ / > A hundred years indeed is a man's life. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.15) āyur eva asmiṃs tad dadhāti / (soma: prātar anuvāka) > He thereby places life in him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.16) viṃśati śatam anubrūyāt / > He should recite a hundred and twenty. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.17) viṃśati śatam vā ṛtor ahāni / > A hundred and twenty are the days of a season. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.18) tad ṛtum āpnoti / (soma: prātar anuvāka) > Thereby he attains the season, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.19) ṛtunā saṃvatsaram / > through the season, the year, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.20) ye ca saṃvatsare kāmāḥ / > and whatever desires are in the year. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.21) trīṇi ṣaṣṭi śatāny anubrūyāt / (soma: prātar anuvāka) > He should recite three hundred and sixty. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.22) trīṇi vai ṣaṣṭi śatāni saṃvatsarasya ahnām / > Three hundred and sixty are the days of the year. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.23) tat saṃvatsarasya ahāny āpnoti / (soma: prātar anuvāka) > Thereby he obtains the days of the year. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.24) saptaviṃśati śatāny anubrūyāt / > He should recite seven hundred and twenty \[verses\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [11.7.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7.26) tat saṃvatsarasya aho rātrān āpnoti / (soma: prātar anuvāka) > Thereby he obtains the days and nights of the year. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## 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.p11) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.11.7.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.11.7) · Pramāṇa