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> — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.6) tad amuṃl lokam āpnoti / (soma: aAśvina śastra) > thereby he wins yonder world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.7) sauryam kratum śaṃsati / > He recites the section to Sūrya; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.8) asti vai caturtho deva loka āpaḥ / > there is indeed a fourth world of the gods: the Waters. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.9) tam eva asya tena āpnoti / > That one he wins for him thereby. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.10) pragātham śaṃsati / (soma: aAśvina śastra) > He recites a pragātha; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.11) paśavo vai pragātha / > cattle are a pragātha, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.12) paśūnām eva āptyai / > for the obtaining of cattle. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.13) atho prāṇa apānau vai bārhataḥ pragāthaḥ / (soma: aAśvina śastra) > Moreover, the Bārhatapragātha is expiration and inhalation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.16) dyāvā pṛthivīyam śaṃsati / > He recites \[the verse\] to Heaven and Earth; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.17) pratiṣṭhe vai dyāvā pṛthivī pratiṣṭhityā eva / > Heaven and Earth are two firm supports, for firm support. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.18) dvipadām śaṃsati / > He recites a Dvipadā; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.19) pratiṣṭhānīyam vai chando dvipadā pratiṣhityā eva / (soma: aAśvina śastra) > the Dvipadā metre is a firm support, for firm support. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.20) bārhaspatyayā paridadhāti / > He concludes with a verse to Bṛhaspati; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.21) brahma vai bṛhaspatiḥ / > Bṛhaspati is the sacred power; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.22) brahmaṇy eva tad antataḥ pratitiṣṭhati / (soma: aAśvina śastra) > in the sacred power he ultimately finds a firm support. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.23) atha eṣā sampad bhavati / > Now this is the metrical computation: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.24) trīṇi gāyatrī śatāni te dve bṛhatī śate / (soma: aAśvina śastra) > three hundred Gāyatrīs, they are two hundred Bṛhatīs; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xviii. 3. Three hundred Gāyatrī verses are two hundred Bṛhatī verses; > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [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 Anuṣṭubhs and seventy Paṅktis are one hundred and forty Bṛhatīs; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 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) ### [18.2.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.26) trayāṇām triṣṭup śatānām gāyatrī śatam uddhṛtya tāni trīṇi bṛhatī śatāni / (soma: aAśvina śastra) > taking out a hundred Gāyatrīs from three hundred Triṣṭubhs, these are three hundred Bṛhatīs; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.27) tac ca gāyatrī śatam jagatī śatam ca te dve bṛhatī śate / > and that one hundred Gāyatrīs and one hundred Jagatīs, they are two hundred Bṛhatīs; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.28) pañcāśat triṣṭubhaḥ pañcāśad uṣṇihaḥ śatam bṛhatyaḥ sampadyante / (soma: aAśvina śastra) > fifty Triṣṭubhs and fifty Uṣṇihs amount to one hundred Bṛhatīs; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.29) atha yāḥ sapta pañcāśatam bṛhatyo atra eva tāḥ sampannātḥ / > then the fifty-seven Bṛhatīs are fulfilled right here; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.30) atha ye dvāpañcāśyau triṣṭubhau dvipadā ca tās tiro bṛhatyaḥ sampadyante / (soma: aAśvina śastra) > then the two Triṣṭubhs of fifty-two syllables and the Dvipadā amount to the remaining Bṛhatīs. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.31) tan nānāc chandasyānām sahasram sat sahasram bṛhatyaḥ sampadyante / > Thus, being a thousand verses in various metres, they amount to a thousand Bṛhatīs. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2.32) na sahasram atiśaṃsen na arvāk sahasrād ity eṣā ha eva sthitiḥ / (soma: aAśvina śastra) > 'He should not recite more than a thousand, nor less than a thousand'—such indeed is the rule. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## 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.p6) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.18.2.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.2) · Pramāṇa