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# Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 15.4

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 15.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [15.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.1)

tad etat pṛtanāji deva sūktam yan marutvatīyam /

> That Marutvatīya hymn is an army-conquering divine hymn.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.2)

etena hi indraḥ pṛtanā ajayat /

> For by this Indra conquered armies.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.3)

tasya madhye nividam dadhāti / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> In the middle of it he inserts the nivid.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.4)

madhye vā idam ātmano annam dhīyate /

> Food is placed in the middle of the body.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.5)

atha nividaḥ śaṃsati /

> Then he recites the nivids.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.6)

prāṇā vai nividaḥ / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> The nivids are the breath-prāṇas.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.7)

prāṇān eva tad ātman dhatte /

> Thereby he places the breath-prāṇas in himself.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.8)

tāsām eka ekam padam avagrāham śaṃsati / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> He recites them word by word, pausing \[after each\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.9)

eka ekam eva tat prāṇam ātman dhatte /

> One by one, indeed, he thereby places the vital breaths in himself.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.10)

uttamena praṇauti /

> With the last \[word\], he pronounces the syllable oṃ.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.11)

imam eva tat prāṇam utsṛjate / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> Thereby he releases this very breath.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.12)

tasmādd hi imam prāṇam sarve prāṇā anuprāṇanti /

> Therefore all vital breaths breathe along after this breath.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.13)

atho annam nivida ity apy āhuḥ /

> Moreover, they also say: 'The nivids are food.'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.14)

tasmād enā āratam śaṃset / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> Therefore he should recite them with pauses.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.15)

atvaramāṇa iva hi pratikāminam anna adyam atti /

> For without haste, as it were, one eats food according to desire.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.16)

ye tv āhihatye maghavann avardhann ity uktham śastvā yajati / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> Having recited the uktha, he offers with: 'They who strengthened you in the slaying of Ahi, O Maghavan...'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.17)

ye śāmbare harivo ye gaviṣṭhāv iti /

> ...and with: 'They who \[strengthened you\] against Śambara, O possessor of bay steeds, they who in the search for cattle...'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.18)

etair vā eṣa etāni saha vīryāṇy akarot / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> With these, indeed, he performed these heroic deeds together.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.19)

tair eva asya eṣa saha soma pīthaḥ /

> Together with them is this drinking of soma of his.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.20)

sā vā aindrī triṣṭub bhavati /

> It is a Triṣṭubh dedicated to Indra.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.21)

aindram hi traiṣṭubham mādhyaṃdinam savanam / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> For the midday pressing belongs to Indra and has the Triṣṭubh \[metre\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.22)

anuvaṣaṭ karoty āhutīnām eva śāntyai / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> He makes the secondary vaṣaṭ-call, for the appeasement of the offerings;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.23)

āhutīnām pratiṣṭhityai /

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

### [15.4.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.24)

vāg eva asau prathamā anuṣṭup / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> Speech itself is that first Anuṣṭubh.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.25)

tām pañca gāyatryo anuvartante /

> Five Gāyatrīs follow after it.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.26)

mana indra nihavaḥ śrotram brāhmaṇaspatyaḥ / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> The invocation of Indra is the mind; the \[hymn\] to Bṛhaspati is the ear.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.27)

prāṇo apāno vyāna iti tisra eka pātinyaḥ /

> The out-breath, the in-breath, and the circulating breath are the three single verses.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.28)

ātmā sūktam yad antar ātmaṃs tan nivit / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> The body is the hymn; that which is inside the body is the nivid.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [15.4.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.15.4.29)

pratiṣṭhā paridhānīya annam yājyā / (soma: mādhyaṃdina savana)

> The concluding verse is the foundation; the offering verse is food.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.15.4.1) — English, machine translation

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