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# Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 14.3

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 14.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [14.3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.1)

tasmād anavānam saṃkrāmet /

> Therefore he should pass over without breathing in.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.2)

amṛtam vai prāṇaḥ /

> Breath indeed is immortality.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.3)

amṛtena tan mṛtyum tarati /

> By means of immortality he crosses over death.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.4)

samastena uttareṇa ardharcena praṇauti /

> With the subsequent half-verse recited continuously, he sounds the praṇava.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.5)

vajram eva tat pāpmane bhrātṛvyāya praharati / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

> Thereby he hurls a thunderbolt at his evil rival.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.6)

tā daśa gāyatryaḥ sampadyante /

> These amount to ten gāyatrīs.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.7)

aṣṭa akṣaram hi daśamam padam /

> For the tenth pada has eight syllables.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.8)

gāyatrī vai sā yā anuṣṭup / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

> That which is the anuṣṭubh is indeed a gāyatrī.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.9)

gāyatram agneś chandaḥ /

> The gāyatrī is the metre of Agni.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.10)

daśa prātaḥ savane adhvaryur grahān gṛhṇāti /

> At the morning pressing, the adhvaryu draws ten draughts.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.11)

navasu bahiṣ pavamānena stuvate / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

> They praise with nine \[verses\] in the bahiṣpavamāna \[stotra\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.12)

hiṃkāro daśamaḥ /

> The hiṃ-sound is the tenth.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.13)

daśa imāḥ /

> These \[recited verses\] are ten.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.14)

te nānā kurvanto virājam abhiṣampādayanti / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

> Doing this variously, they produce the virāj.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.15)

etad vai kṛtsnam anna adyam yad virāḍ eva /

> That virāj is indeed complete food and nourishment.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.16)

tat sampādya yajamāne pratidadhāti / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

> Having produced that, he establishes it in the sacrificer.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.17)

triḥ prathamayā trir uttamayā ekādaśa sampadyante /

> With three times the first and three times the final, they amount to eleven.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.18)

yājyā dvādaśī /

> The offering verse is the twelfth.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.19)

dvādaśa vai māsāḥ saṃvatsaraḥ / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

> The year indeed consists of twelve months,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.20)

saṃvatsarasya eva āptyai /

> for the obtaining of the year.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.21)

tāḥ saṃśastāḥ ṣoḍaśa gāyatryaḥ sampadyante / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

> When recited, they amount to sixteen gāyatrīs.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.22)

tad gāyatrīm ājyam abhisampadyate /

> Thus the ājya \[recitation\] attains the gāyatrī.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.23)

āgnendryā yajati /

> He sacrifices with a verse to Agni and Indra.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.24)

indram eva tad ardha bhājam savanasya karoti / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

> Thereby he makes Indra share half of the pressing.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.25)

tasyām devatā anvābhajata iti ha sma āha kauṣītakiḥ /

> ‘In it he causes the deities to share,’ Kauṣītaki used to say.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.26)

trayas triṃśad akṣarā vai virāṭ / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

> The virāj indeed consists of thirty-three syllables.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.27)

trayas triṃśad devatāḥ /

> The deities are thirty-three.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.28)

akṣara bhājo devatāḥ karoti /

> He makes the deities share in the syllables.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.29)

agna indraś ca dāśuṣo duroṇa iti padam pariśiṣya virājo ardharce avān iti /

> Leaving the pada: ‘O Agni and Indra, in the house of the giver’ \[RV 1.108.7\], he breathes in at the half-verse of the virāj.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.30)

śrīr virāḍ anna adyam / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

> The virāj is prosperity, food and nourishment.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.31)

śriyām tad virājy anna adye pratitiṣṭhati /

> Thus he firmly stands in prosperity, in the virāj, in food and nourishment.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.32)

uttareṇa virājo ardharcena vaṣaṭ karoti /

> With the subsequent half-verse of the virāj he utters the vaṣaṭ-call.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.33)

svarga eva tal loke yajamānam dadhāti /

> Thereby he establishes the sacrificer in the heavenly world.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.34)

anuvaṣaṭ karoty āhtīnām eva śāntyai /

> He utters the secondary vaṣaṭ-call for the pacification of the offerings,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.3.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.14.3.35)

āhutīnām pratiṣṭhityai / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

> for the firm standing of the offerings.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.14.3.1) — English, machine translation

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