[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Vedic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda) › [Brāhmaṇas (ritual exegesis)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana) › [Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki) › 18.2.25 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 18.2.25 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 18.2.25 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [18.2.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.25) saptatim anuṣṭubhaḥ saptatim paṅktayaś catvāriṃśat śatam bṛhatīnām / (soma: aAśvina śastra) > seventy Anuṣṭubh and seventy Paṅkti verses are one hundred and forty Bṛhatī verses; deducting a hundred Gāyatrī from three hundred Triṣṭubh verses there are three hundred Bṛhatī verses; the hundred Gāyatrī verses and a hundred Jagatī verses are two hundred Bṛhatī verses; fifty Triṣṭubh and fifty Uṣṇih verses make up a hundred Bṛhatī verses; then there are fifty-seven Bṛhatī verses actually found; the fifty-first and fifty-second Triṣṭubh verses and (the verse) of two Padas are three Bṛhatī verses; thus a thousand Bṛhatīs are made up from a thousand of varied metres. ‘He should not recite over a thousand, nor less than a thousand’ is the rule; the expansion of the Āçvina is however conspicuous. This is a service for Agni; verily he should not fall away from the service for Agni; if he should pass over the service for Agni before the due time, he should apply there whatever in the Āçvina is addressed to two gods in the Ṛcs; in the service for Sūrya (he should use) (the verses) for Soma, the purifying, according to metre, Gāyatrī in Gāyatrī, Triṣṭubh in Triṣṭubh, Jagatī in Jagatī; all that is connected with Sūrya in the place of (the service) for Sūrya; all Pragāthas to Indra in the place of the Pragātha; all to sky and earth in the place of (the hymn) to sky and earth; all (verses) of two Padas in the place of (the verse) of two Padas; all addressed to Bṛhaspati before the final verse. That is whatever of the Ṛcs is not set forth. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 18.2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.24) - [Next: 18.2.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.26) - [Up: 18.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2) ## Translations (2) - [Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-keith.18.p7) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.18.2.25) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.25) · Pramāṇa