Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 14.6

14.6.1

gāyatram praugam śaṃsati /

He recites the Prauga recitation in Gāyatrī metre;

14.6.2

tena prātaḥ savanam āptam /

by it the morning pressing is obtained.

14.6.3

aindram śaṃsati / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

He recites [verses] to Indra;

14.6.4

tena mādhyaṃdinam savanam āptam /

by that the midday pressing is obtained.

14.6.5

vaiśvadevam śaṃsati /

He recites [verses] to the All-Gods;

14.6.6

tena tṛtīya savanam āptam /

by that the third pressing is obtained.

14.6.7

atha vaiśvadevīm purorucam śaṃsati / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

Then he recites the puroruc to the All-Gods.

xiv. 5. Then he recites a Puroruc addressed to the All-gods. It is of six feet; the seasons some call it. The seasons are six; he recites each two feet of it separately; therefore the seasons are united in pairs and called 'Summer, the rains, and winter.' Some recite the Puroruc for Sarasvatī; he should not do so; it is superfluous; speech has of itself radiance; speech is the Puroruc. 'O Vāyu, come hither, O lovely one' and 'O Açvins, sacrificial food', these two (hymns) are the Praüga; (they are) of nine verses and of twelve verses; these make twenty-one; the four (verse) Stoma, the highest of Stomas, is twenty-onefold; thus he obtains the highest Stoma; in that, further, there are twenty-one, and the months are twelve, the seasons five, these worlds three, and yonder sun the twenty-first, verily thereby he places the sacrificer in identity of world with (the sun). There are seven triplets; the metres are seven; verily (they serve) to obtain all the metres. Moreover with these the gods appropriated the seven heptads of the Asuras; verily thus also the sacrificer appropriates the seven heptads of the rival who hates him. In the beginning the morning pressing was Agni's, the midday pressing Indra's, the third pressing the All-gods'. Agni desired 'Let me have a share in the midday pressing, also in the third pressing.'

14.6.8

sā ṣaṭ padā bhavati /

It has six feet.

14.6.9

tām tām ṛtava ity āhuḥ /

they call it the seasons.

14.6.10

ṣaḍ ḍhy ṛtavaḥ /

for the seasons are six.

14.6.11

tasyai dve dve pade avagrāham śaṃsati /

He recites separating every two pādas of it.

14.6.12

tasmād dvandvam samastā ṛtava ākhyāyante grīṣmo varṣā hemanta iti / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

Therefore the seasons, combined in pairs, are declared: summer, the rains, winter.

14.6.13

atra ha eke sārasvatīm purorucam śaṃsanti /

Here, indeed, some recite a puroruc to Sarasvatī.

14.6.14

na tathā kuryāt /

He should not do so.

14.6.15

atiriktam tat /

That is superfluous.

14.6.16

rucitā vai vāk / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

Speech is indeed bright.

14.6.17

svayam purorug vai vāk /

Speech itself is indeed the puroruc.

14.6.18

vāyav ā yāhi darśata aśvinā yajvarīr iṣa ity ete ubhe tat praugam navarcam ca dvādaśarcam ca / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

'Come, O Vāyu, visible', [and] 'O Aśvins, sacrifice-bearing refreshments'—these both [form] that prauga recitation, consisting of nine verses and twelve verses.

14.6.19

tad ekaviṃśatiḥ /

That [makes] twenty-one.

14.6.20

ekaviṃśo vai catuṣṭomaḥ stomānām paramaḥ /

The twenty-one-fold stoma is indeed the highest of the stomas.

14.6.21

tat paramam stomam āpnoti / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

Thereby he attains the highest stoma.

14.6.22

yad v eva ekaviṃśatiḥ /

Moreover, as to why it is twenty-one:

14.6.23

dvādaśa māsāḥ pañcartavas traya ime lokāḥ / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

Twelve months, five seasons, [and] these three worlds;

14.6.24

asāv āditya ekaviṃśaḥ /

yonder sun is the twenty-first.

14.6.25

tena eva tat salokatāyām yajamānam adhyūhati / (soma: prātaḥ savana)

By means of it he mounts the sacrificer into shared worldhood [with the sun].