[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) › 18.6 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 18.6 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 18.6 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [18.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.6.1) atha prāṇānt sammṛśante / > Then they touch their vital breaths. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.6.2) tad yad eva atra prāṇānām krūrī kṛtam yad viliṣṭam tad eva etad āpyāyayanti tad bhiṣajyanti / (soma: aAśvina śastra) > Whatever of their vital breaths has been injured here, whatever strained, that they thereby invigorate, that they heal. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.6.3) bhakṣa paridhīn kurvate / > They make cups for consuming \[Soma\] into enclosure-sticks. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.6.4) mānuṣeṇa eva tad bhakṣeṇa daivam bhakṣam antar dadhate / (soma: aAśvina śastra) > With human consumption they thereby separate divine consumption. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.6.5) avabhṛthaḥ / > The avabhṛtha. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xviii. 9. The final bath (is described). Him who yonder gives heat they seek by these pressings to obtain; the rising by the morning pressing, (the sun) in the middle (of his course) by the midday pressing, (the sun) as he sets by the third pressing. He, having entered the waters, becomes Varuṇa; therefore he offers to Varuṇa a cake on one potsherd; prosperity is solitary; Varuṇa is prosperity; verily thus he finds support at the end in prosperity. They depart between the pit and the mound, for that is > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [18.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.6.6) amum eva etat savanair īpsanti yo asau tapati / > With the pressings they seek to reach that one there who shines. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.6.7) udyantam prātaḥ savanena / (soma: avabhṛtha) > As he rises, with the morning pressing; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.6.8) madhye santam mādhyaṃdinena savanena / > as he is in the middle, with the midday pressing; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.6.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.6.9) astam yantam tṛtīya savanena / > as he sets, with the third pressing. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.6.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.6.10) sa vā eṣo apaḥ praviśya varuṇo bhavati / (soma: avabhṛtha) > Having entered the waters, he indeed becomes Varuṇa. > — 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.p19) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.18.6.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.18.6) · Pramāṇa