Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 13.6

13.6.1

saṃsravān hotṛ camase avanayati /

He pours the residues into the cup of the hotṛ.

13.6.2

iḍā bhāja eva enāṃs tat karoti / (soma: soma bheda vicāra)

Thereby he makes them share in the iḍā.

13.6.3

atha iḍām upahvayate /

Then he invokes the iḍā.

xiii. 7. Then he invokes the sacrificial food; carrying in his right hand the second (portion of the) sacrificial food he in the left holds together, but without allowing to touch, the Hotṛ's bowl and the cup (thinking) ‘The butter is a thunderbolt; Soma is seed; let me not harm seed by the thunderbolt.’ He does not speak the formula of pouring into it, he does not utter benedictions. Having invoked the sacrificial food and having sniffed it he pauses; he eats the second (portion of the) sacrificial food; then having sipped water he eats of the Hotṛ's bowl. The Soma is the highest kind of proper food; verily thus all, having invoked the highest kind of proper food, eat of it.

13.6.4

upodyacchanti camasān /

They raise up the cups.

xiii. 7. Then he invokes the sacrificial food; carrying in his right hand the second (portion of the) sacrificial food he in the left holds together, but without allowing to touch, the Hotṛ's bowl and the cup (thinking) ‘The butter is a thunderbolt; Soma is seed; let me not harm seed by the thunderbolt.’ He does not speak the formula of pouring into it, he does not utter benedictions. Having invoked the sacrificial food and having sniffed it he pauses; he eats the second (portion of the) sacrificial food; then having sipped water he eats of the Hotṛ's bowl. The Soma is the highest kind of proper food; verily thus all, having invoked the highest kind of proper food, eat of it.

13.6.5

hotṛ camasam anvārabhate / (soma: soma bheda vicāra)

He takes hold from behind of the cup of the hotṛ.

xiii. 7. Then he invokes the sacrificial food; carrying in his right hand the second (portion of the) sacrificial food he in the left holds together, but without allowing to touch, the Hotṛ's bowl and the cup (thinking) ‘The butter is a thunderbolt; Soma is seed; let me not harm seed by the thunderbolt.’ He does not speak the formula of pouring into it, he does not utter benedictions. Having invoked the sacrificial food and having sniffed it he pauses; he eats the second (portion of the) sacrificial food; then having sipped water he eats of the Hotṛ's bowl. The Soma is the highest kind of proper food; verily thus all, having invoked the highest kind of proper food, eat of it.

13.6.6

asaṃsparśann upahvayata iḍām /

Without touching, he invokes the iḍā.

xiii. 7. Then he invokes the sacrificial food; carrying in his right hand the second (portion of the) sacrificial food he in the left holds together, but without allowing to touch, the Hotṛ's bowl and the cup (thinking) ‘The butter is a thunderbolt; Soma is seed; let me not harm seed by the thunderbolt.’ He does not speak the formula of pouring into it, he does not utter benedictions. Having invoked the sacrificial food and having sniffed it he pauses; he eats the second (portion of the) sacrificial food; then having sipped water he eats of the Hotṛ's bowl. The Soma is the highest kind of proper food; verily thus all, having invoked the highest kind of proper food, eat of it.

13.6.7

vajro vā ājyam /

Clarified butter is indeed a thunderbolt;

xiii. 7. Then he invokes the sacrificial food; carrying in his right hand the second (portion of the) sacrificial food he in the left holds together, but without allowing to touch, the Hotṛ's bowl and the cup (thinking) ‘The butter is a thunderbolt; Soma is seed; let me not harm seed by the thunderbolt.’ He does not speak the formula of pouring into it, he does not utter benedictions. Having invoked the sacrificial food and having sniffed it he pauses; he eats the second (portion of the) sacrificial food; then having sipped water he eats of the Hotṛ's bowl. The Soma is the highest kind of proper food; verily thus all, having invoked the highest kind of proper food, eat of it.

13.6.8

retaḥ somaḥ /

Soma is seed.

xiii. 7. Then he invokes the sacrificial food; carrying in his right hand the second (portion of the) sacrificial food he in the left holds together, but without allowing to touch, the Hotṛ's bowl and the cup (thinking) ‘The butter is a thunderbolt; Soma is seed; let me not harm seed by the thunderbolt.’ He does not speak the formula of pouring into it, he does not utter benedictions. Having invoked the sacrificial food and having sniffed it he pauses; he eats the second (portion of the) sacrificial food; then having sipped water he eats of the Hotṛ's bowl. The Soma is the highest kind of proper food; verily thus all, having invoked the highest kind of proper food, eat of it.

13.6.9

na id vajreṇa reto hinasāni iti / (soma: soma bheda vicāra)

[He does so thinking:] "Lest I injure the seed with the thunderbolt."

xiii. 7. Then he invokes the sacrificial food; carrying in his right hand the second (portion of the) sacrificial food he in the left holds together, but without allowing to touch, the Hotṛ's bowl and the cup (thinking) ‘The butter is a thunderbolt; Soma is seed; let me not harm seed by the thunderbolt.’ He does not speak the formula of pouring into it, he does not utter benedictions. Having invoked the sacrificial food and having sniffed it he pauses; he eats the second (portion of the) sacrificial food; then having sipped water he eats of the Hotṛ's bowl. The Soma is the highest kind of proper food; verily thus all, having invoked the highest kind of proper food, eat of it.

13.6.10

tasyām na sunvad āha /

At it he does not say [the formula with] "the presser";

xiii. 7. Then he invokes the sacrificial food; carrying in his right hand the second (portion of the) sacrificial food he in the left holds together, but without allowing to touch, the Hotṛ's bowl and the cup (thinking) ‘The butter is a thunderbolt; Soma is seed; let me not harm seed by the thunderbolt.’ He does not speak the formula of pouring into it, he does not utter benedictions. Having invoked the sacrificial food and having sniffed it he pauses; he eats the second (portion of the) sacrificial food; then having sipped water he eats of the Hotṛ's bowl. The Soma is the highest kind of proper food; verily thus all, having invoked the highest kind of proper food, eat of it.

13.6.11

na āśiṣo nirāha /

he does not utter the blessings.

xiii. 7. Then he invokes the sacrificial food; carrying in his right hand the second (portion of the) sacrificial food he in the left holds together, but without allowing to touch, the Hotṛ's bowl and the cup (thinking) ‘The butter is a thunderbolt; Soma is seed; let me not harm seed by the thunderbolt.’ He does not speak the formula of pouring into it, he does not utter benedictions. Having invoked the sacrificial food and having sniffed it he pauses; he eats the second (portion of the) sacrificial food; then having sipped water he eats of the Hotṛ's bowl. The Soma is the highest kind of proper food; verily thus all, having invoked the highest kind of proper food, eat of it.

13.6.12

upahūya iḍām avaghrāya avasyati / (soma: soma bheda vicāra)

Having invoked the iḍā [and] smelled it, he puts it down.

xiii. 7. Then he invokes the sacrificial food; carrying in his right hand the second (portion of the) sacrificial food he in the left holds together, but without allowing to touch, the Hotṛ's bowl and the cup (thinking) ‘The butter is a thunderbolt; Soma is seed; let me not harm seed by the thunderbolt.’ He does not speak the formula of pouring into it, he does not utter benedictions. Having invoked the sacrificial food and having sniffed it he pauses; he eats the second (portion of the) sacrificial food; then having sipped water he eats of the Hotṛ's bowl. The Soma is the highest kind of proper food; verily thus all, having invoked the highest kind of proper food, eat of it.

13.6.13

prāśnāty uttarā iḍām /

He eats the later iḍā.

xiii. 7. Then he invokes the sacrificial food; carrying in his right hand the second (portion of the) sacrificial food he in the left holds together, but without allowing to touch, the Hotṛ's bowl and the cup (thinking) ‘The butter is a thunderbolt; Soma is seed; let me not harm seed by the thunderbolt.’ He does not speak the formula of pouring into it, he does not utter benedictions. Having invoked the sacrificial food and having sniffed it he pauses; he eats the second (portion of the) sacrificial food; then having sipped water he eats of the Hotṛ's bowl. The Soma is the highest kind of proper food; verily thus all, having invoked the highest kind of proper food, eat of it.

13.6.14

atha apa ācamya hotṛ camasam bhakṣayati / (soma: soma bheda vicāra)

Then, having sipped water, he consumes the cup of the hotṛ.

xiii. 7. Then he invokes the sacrificial food; carrying in his right hand the second (portion of the) sacrificial food he in the left holds together, but without allowing to touch, the Hotṛ's bowl and the cup (thinking) ‘The butter is a thunderbolt; Soma is seed; let me not harm seed by the thunderbolt.’ He does not speak the formula of pouring into it, he does not utter benedictions. Having invoked the sacrificial food and having sniffed it he pauses; he eats the second (portion of the) sacrificial food; then having sipped water he eats of the Hotṛ's bowl. The Soma is the highest kind of proper food; verily thus all, having invoked the highest kind of proper food, eat of it.

13.6.15

etad vai paramam anna adyam yat somaḥ /

This is the supreme proper food, namely Soma.

xiii. 7. Then he invokes the sacrificial food; carrying in his right hand the second (portion of the) sacrificial food he in the left holds together, but without allowing to touch, the Hotṛ's bowl and the cup (thinking) ‘The butter is a thunderbolt; Soma is seed; let me not harm seed by the thunderbolt.’ He does not speak the formula of pouring into it, he does not utter benedictions. Having invoked the sacrificial food and having sniffed it he pauses; he eats the second (portion of the) sacrificial food; then having sipped water he eats of the Hotṛ's bowl. The Soma is the highest kind of proper food; verily thus all, having invoked the highest kind of proper food, eat of it.

13.6.16

paramam eva etad anna adyam sarve samupahūya bhakṣayanti / (soma: soma bheda vicāra)

All, having mutually invited one another, consume this supreme proper food.

xiii. 7. Then he invokes the sacrificial food; carrying in his right hand the second (portion of the) sacrificial food he in the left holds together, but without allowing to touch, the Hotṛ's bowl and the cup (thinking) ‘The butter is a thunderbolt; Soma is seed; let me not harm seed by the thunderbolt.’ He does not speak the formula of pouring into it, he does not utter benedictions. Having invoked the sacrificial food and having sniffed it he pauses; he eats the second (portion of the) sacrificial food; then having sipped water he eats of the Hotṛ's bowl. The Soma is the highest kind of proper food; verily thus all, having invoked the highest kind of proper food, eat of it.

13.6.17

atha vai pratyupahavo acchāvākasya /

Now indeed is the mutual invitation of the acchāvāka.

xiii. 8. Next the response of the Achāvāka. ‘These dear songs the sacrificer, the pourer, hath seized; the Upavaktṛ is a support, the cows are invited by us (he should say), if he does not desire to invite; ‘He also is invited’ he adds, if he desires to invite. The Achāvāka in response to the invitation should run over as many verses as he can of the hymn, ‘Do ye stay, go not away.’ Or a Hotṛ (may do so) to an unwilling Achāvāka. That is the expiation here.

13.6.20

pratyetā vāmā sūktāyam.(?).sunvan yajamāno agrabhīt / (soma: soma bheda vicāra)

[…]: "The pressing sacrificer has grasped;

xiii. 8. Next the response of the Achāvāka. ‘These dear songs the sacrificer, the pourer, hath seized; the Upavaktṛ is a support, the cows are invited by us (he should say), if he does not desire to invite; ‘He also is invited’ he adds, if he desires to invite. The Achāvāka in response to the invitation should run over as many verses as he can of the hymn, ‘Do ye stay, go not away.’ Or a Hotṛ (may do so) to an unwilling Achāvāka. That is the expiation here.

13.6.19

uta patiṣṭhā uta upavaktar uta no gāva upahūtā iti /

and, O master, and, O adviser, and our cows have been invited."

xiii. 8. Next the response of the Achāvāka. ‘These dear songs the sacrificer, the pourer, hath seized; the Upavaktṛ is a support, the cows are invited by us (he should say), if he does not desire to invite; ‘He also is invited’ he adds, if he desires to invite. The Achāvāka in response to the invitation should run over as many verses as he can of the hymn, ‘Do ye stay, go not away.’ Or a Hotṛ (may do so) to an unwilling Achāvāka. That is the expiation here.

13.6.20_2

yadi na upajuhūṣati /

If he does not wish to invite [him in turn],

13.6.21

uta upahūta ity abhyasyati yady upajuhūṣate /

he repeats: "And he is invited," if he wishes to invite [him in turn].

xiii. 8. Next the response of the Achāvāka. ‘These dear songs the sacrificer, the pourer, hath seized; the Upavaktṛ is a support, the cows are invited by us (he should say), if he does not desire to invite; ‘He also is invited’ he adds, if he desires to invite. The Achāvāka in response to the invitation should run over as many verses as he can of the hymn, ‘Do ye stay, go not away.’ Or a Hotṛ (may do so) to an unwilling Achāvāka. That is the expiation here.

13.6.22

pratyupahūto acchāvāko nivartadhvam mā anugātā ity etasya sūktasya yāvatīḥ paryāpnuyāt tāvatīr anudravet / (soma: soma bheda vicāra)

The acchāvāka, having been invited in return, should recite after, as many [verses] as he can attain of this hymn: "Turn back, do not follow."

xiii. 8. Next the response of the Achāvāka. ‘These dear songs the sacrificer, the pourer, hath seized; the Upavaktṛ is a support, the cows are invited by us (he should say), if he does not desire to invite; ‘He also is invited’ he adds, if he desires to invite. The Achāvāka in response to the invitation should run over as many verses as he can of the hymn, ‘Do ye stay, go not away.’ Or a Hotṛ (may do so) to an unwilling Achāvāka. That is the expiation here.

13.6.23

hotā vā acchāvākam apratikāminam /

The hotṛ [treats] the acchāvāka as undesirable.

xiii. 8. Next the response of the Achāvāka. ‘These dear songs the sacrificer, the pourer, hath seized; the Upavaktṛ is a support, the cows are invited by us (he should say), if he does not desire to invite; ‘He also is invited’ he adds, if he desires to invite. The Achāvāka in response to the invitation should run over as many verses as he can of the hymn, ‘Do ye stay, go not away.’ Or a Hotṛ (may do so) to an unwilling Achāvāka. That is the expiation here.

13.6.24

so tatra prāyaś cittiḥ / (soma: soma bheda vicāra)

This is the expiation for that.

xiii. 8. Next the response of the Achāvāka. ‘These dear songs the sacrificer, the pourer, hath seized; the Upavaktṛ is a support, the cows are invited by us (he should say), if he does not desire to invite; ‘He also is invited’ he adds, if he desires to invite. The Achāvāka in response to the invitation should run over as many verses as he can of the hymn, ‘Do ye stay, go not away.’ Or a Hotṛ (may do so) to an unwilling Achāvāka. That is the expiation here.