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'The mothers go with the paths' (he recites); the mothers are the waters, for he praises the waters as they go. 'They have come, rich, with living gifts' (he recites) when they have come up. He concludes with > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [12.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.12.2.19) āpo vā ambayaḥ / > The mothers are indeed the waters; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xii. 2. 'The mothers go with the paths' (he recites); the mothers are the waters, for he praises the waters as they go. 'They have come, rich, with living gifts' (he recites) when they have come up. He concludes with > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [12.2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.12.2.20) apo hi yatīḥ stauti / > he praises the waters as they go. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xii. 2. 'The mothers go with the paths' (he recites); the mothers are the waters, for he praises the waters as they go. 'They have come, rich, with living gifts' (he recites) when they have come up. He concludes with > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [12.2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.12.2.21) emā agman revatīr jīva dhanyā ity āgatāsu / (soma: apOṇApUṭṛIYA) > 'These wealthy ones have come, rich in life…' \[he recites\] when they have arrived. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xii. 2. 'The mothers go with the paths' (he recites); the mothers are the waters, for he praises the waters as they go. 'They have come, rich, with living gifts' (he recites) when they have come up. He concludes with > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [12.2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.12.2.22) āgmann āpa uśatīr barhir edam ity āgatavatyā paridadhāti / > With \[the verse\] indicating arrival, 'The waters, desiring, have come here to the sacrificial grass,' he concludes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > (a verse ) containing the word 'across', 'The waters have arrived, eager, to this strew.' He recites appropriate (verses); what in the sacrifice is appropriate, that is perfect; verily (they serve) for the perfection of the sacrifice. The morning litany had been recited, the hymns had not been obtained ; at this conjunction the Asuras went against them; the gods, perceiving in fear, saw this thriceforged thunderbolt; 'The waters' is the first form of the thunderbolt; 'Sarasvatī' is the second form of the thunderbolt ; this is a hymn of fifteen verses, that is the third form of the thunderbolt. The gods with the thriceforged thunderbolt pushed away the Asuras from these worlds; verily thus also the sacrificer pushes away with this thriceforged thunderbolt the rivals who hate him from these worlds. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [12.2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.12.2.23) abhirūpā anvāha / (soma: apOṇApUṭṛIYA) > He recites appropriate \[verses\]; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [12.2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.12.2.24) yad yajñe abhirūpam tat samṛddham yajñasya eva samṛddhyai / (soma: apOṇApUṭṛIYA) > what in the sacrifice is appropriate is complete, for the completeness of the sacrifice. > — 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.12.p5) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.12.2.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Āśvalāyanaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.asvalayana.5.1-8) — Āśvalāyana, Sanskrit - [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.2.20) — Mahidāsa Aitareya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.12.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.12.2) · Pramāṇa