Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 20.5.20

20.5.20

antas tṛtīyam ahaḥ /

xx. 4. They perform the Āyus as the third day; the symbols in its verses are those of the third day. ‘Thou, O Agni, the Vasus here’ is the Ājya; self collected is that metre which accords with the symbol of the day; there is (the word) ‘thou’ in ‘O thou of the ruddy steeds, singer, bring hither the three and thirty’; that is the symbol of the third day. The Praüga is in Uṣṇih verses by Viçvamanas; when the Rathantara Sāman was created, the Praüga in Uṣṇih by Viçvamanas was created after it; thus he makes the rite successful with its symbol; that rite is likely to cause success which is successful with its symbol. ‘Him for great gain’ is the strophe of the Marutvatīya; at ‘him’ there is a repetition; the third day is the end; having gone to the end he repeats as it were, for hence whitherward should he go? ‘Three Soma draughts for Indra’ is the antistrophe. This is the symbol of the third day. ‘Let Brahmaṇaspati move forward’, containing (the word) ‘forward’, is addressed to Brahmaṇaspati; there is repetition in ‘Forward let the kindly goddess move’; the third day is the end; having gone to the end he repeats as it were; for hence whitherward should he go? There are three strophes of the Marutvatīyas, three antistrophes, three (Pragāthas) for Brahmaṇaspati;