Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 12.6

12.6.1

anūttheyaḥ pavamāno na iti /

[The question is raised:] 'Should one rise up after the pavamāna [laud], or not?'

xii. 5. ‘Should the Pavamāna be followed up or not?’ (they ask). ‘It should not be followed up,’ they say. The abode of the Ṛc is where the Hotṛ stands; that of the Sāman where they yonder sing the Sāman. He who follows up removes the Ṛc from its own abode, and makes the Ṛc a follower of the Sāman. Therefore he should not follow up, (thinking) ‘Let me not remove the Ṛc from its own abode’ and ‘Let me not make the

12.6.2

na anūttheya ity āhuḥ /

'One should not rise up after it,' they say.

xii. 5. ‘Should the Pavamāna be followed up or not?’ (they ask). ‘It should not be followed up,’ they say. The abode of the Ṛc is where the Hotṛ stands; that of the Sāman where they yonder sing the Sāman. He who follows up removes the Ṛc from its own abode, and makes the Ṛc a follower of the Sāman. Therefore he should not follow up, (thinking) ‘Let me not remove the Ṛc from its own abode’ and ‘Let me not make the

12.6.3

ṛca etad āyatanam yatra etadd ha uta āste / (soma: ekādaśinī)

This is the resting place of the ṛc, where the hotṛ sits.

xii. 5. ‘Should the Pavamāna be followed up or not?’ (they ask). ‘It should not be followed up,’ they say. The abode of the Ṛc is where the Hotṛ stands; that of the Sāman where they yonder sing the Sāman. He who follows up removes the Ṛc from its own abode, and makes the Ṛc a follower of the Sāman. Therefore he should not follow up, (thinking) ‘Let me not remove the Ṛc from its own abode’ and ‘Let me not make the

12.6.4

atha adaḥ sāmno yatra amī sāma gāyanti /

Now, that [place] yonder is of the sāman, where those [chanters] sing the sāman.

xii. 5. ‘Should the Pavamāna be followed up or not?’ (they ask). ‘It should not be followed up,’ they say. The abode of the Ṛc is where the Hotṛ stands; that of the Sāman where they yonder sing the Sāman. He who follows up removes the Ṛc from its own abode, and makes the Ṛc a follower of the Sāman. Therefore he should not follow up, (thinking) ‘Let me not remove the Ṛc from its own abode’ and ‘Let me not make the

12.6.5

sa yo anūttiṣṭhati / (soma: ekādaśinī)

He who rises up after it,

xii. 5. ‘Should the Pavamāna be followed up or not?’ (they ask). ‘It should not be followed up,’ they say. The abode of the Ṛc is where the Hotṛ stands; that of the Sāman where they yonder sing the Sāman. He who follows up removes the Ṛc from its own abode, and makes the Ṛc a follower of the Sāman. Therefore he should not follow up, (thinking) ‘Let me not remove the Ṛc from its own abode’ and ‘Let me not make the

12.6.6

ṛcam sa svāda āyatanāc cyavayati /

he displaces the ṛc from its own resting place.

xii. 5. ‘Should the Pavamāna be followed up or not?’ (they ask). ‘It should not be followed up,’ they say. The abode of the Ṛc is where the Hotṛ stands; that of the Sāman where they yonder sing the Sāman. He who follows up removes the Ṛc from its own abode, and makes the Ṛc a follower of the Sāman. Therefore he should not follow up, (thinking) ‘Let me not remove the Ṛc from its own abode’ and ‘Let me not make the

12.6.7

ṛcam sa sāmno anuvartmānam karoti / (soma: ekādaśinī)

He makes the ṛc a follower of the sāman.

xii. 5. ‘Should the Pavamāna be followed up or not?’ (they ask). ‘It should not be followed up,’ they say. The abode of the Ṛc is where the Hotṛ stands; that of the Sāman where they yonder sing the Sāman. He who follows up removes the Ṛc from its own abode, and makes the Ṛc a follower of the Sāman. Therefore he should not follow up, (thinking) ‘Let me not remove the Ṛc from its own abode’ and ‘Let me not make the

12.6.8

tasmād u na anūttiṣṭhet /

Therefore he should not rise up after it,

xii. 5. ‘Should the Pavamāna be followed up or not?’ (they ask). ‘It should not be followed up,’ they say. The abode of the Ṛc is where the Hotṛ stands; that of the Sāman where they yonder sing the Sāman. He who follows up removes the Ṛc from its own abode, and makes the Ṛc a follower of the Sāman. Therefore he should not follow up, (thinking) ‘Let me not remove the Ṛc from its own abode’ and ‘Let me not make the

12.6.9

na id ṛcam svāda āyatanāc cyavayāni iti / (soma: ekādaśinī)

[thinking:] 'Lest I displace the ṛc from its own resting place;'

xii. 5. ‘Should the Pavamāna be followed up or not?’ (they ask). ‘It should not be followed up,’ they say. The abode of the Ṛc is where the Hotṛ stands; that of the Sāman where they yonder sing the Sāman. He who follows up removes the Ṛc from its own abode, and makes the Ṛc a follower of the Sāman. Therefore he should not follow up, (thinking) ‘Let me not remove the Ṛc from its own abode’ and ‘Let me not make the

12.6.10

na id ṛcam sāmno anuvartmānam karavāṇi iti /

'Lest I make the ṛc a follower of the sāman.'

xii. 5. ‘Should the Pavamāna be followed up or not?’ (they ask). ‘It should not be followed up,’ they say. The abode of the Ṛc is where the Hotṛ stands; that of the Sāman where they yonder sing the Sāman. He who follows up removes the Ṛc from its own abode, and makes the Ṛc a follower of the Sāman. Therefore he should not follow up, (thinking) ‘Let me not remove the Ṛc from its own abode’ and ‘Let me not make the

12.6.11

yadi tu svayam hotā syāt / (soma: ekādaśinī)

If, however, he should be [acting as] the hotṛ himself,

Ṛc a follower of the Sāman.’ But, if (the sacrificer) be also the Hotṛ, he should follow up, for to him falls the duty of a chorister, (thinking) ‘The Svarasāman is the world of heaven; let me place myself in the Svarasāman, the world of heaven.’ Then (they ask) ‘All the gods rejoice together in the morning in the Pavamāna; how then is it not then completely consumed?’ When the Pavamāna has been sung, he should mutter the following, ‘Invoked are the gods for the eating of this Soma, the purifying, the discerning; let the gods invoke me for the eating of this Soma, the purifying, the discerning; with mind thee I eat; with speech thee I eat; with breath thee I eat; with the eye thee I eat; with the ear thee I eat.’ This is the joint invocation with the gods. So by him yonder Soma, the king, the discerning, the moon, the food, is eaten, that food yonder which the gods eat.

12.6.12

anūttiṣṭhet /

he should rise up after it;

12.6.13

aupagātram hy asya bhavati /

for he has the duty of joining in the singing.

12.6.14

svargo vai lokaḥ svaraḥ sāma / (soma: ekādaśinī)

The heavenly world is the tone, the sāman.

12.6.15

svarge loke svare sāmany ātmānam atisṛjā iti /

[He rises thinking:] 'May I project myself into the heavenly world, into the tone, the sāman.'

12.6.16

atha pavamāne ha vā u prātaḥ sarvā devatāḥ saṃtṛpyanti /

Now indeed, in the pavamāna [laud] in the morning all the deities are satiated.

12.6.17

katham tatra aparibhakṣito bhavati iti / (soma: ekādaśinī)

[The question is:] 'How does he not remain excluded from consuming [the Soma] there?'