Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 21.4.13

21.4.13

antaḥ ṣaṣṭham ahaḥ /

well made by the makers'; the sixth day is the end; having gone to the end, he repeats as it were, for hence whitherward should he go? 'He who is born the first, the wise' is the Niṣkevalya; it contains a symbol of ending in the reference to what has been; 'He who hath in secret depressed the hostile colour' is about what has been as it were. It has the same ending; that is a second symbol of the end. 'That desirable greatness of Savitṛ, the god' is (the hymn) to Savitṛ; there is 'of the sky' in 'Prajāpati, supporter of the sky, of the earth'; this is the symbol of yonder world. 'With ghee sky and earth enveloped' is (the hymn) to sky and earth, containing (the word) 'ghee'; ghee has all as its deity; the sixth day has all as its deity; therefore it contains (the word) 'ghee'. 'Why hath the best, why hath the youngest come to us?' is (the hymn) to the Ṛbhus; there is repetition in 'the best, the youngest'; the sixth day is the end; having gone to the end, he repeats as it were, for hence whitherward should he go? 'These fires with Indra have awakened' is (the hymn) to the All-gods; in that it has the same ending it is a symbol of the end. 'To Vaiçvānara the praise, increasing holy order' is (the hymn) to Vaiçvānara; containing (the word) 'ghee' in 'Like pure ghee to Agni we accord'; the explanation of this has been given. 'Rich in showers, the Maruts of daring might' is (the hymn) to the Maruts; there is repetition in 'rich in showers'; the sixth day is the end, having gone to the end, he repeats as it were, for hence whitherward should he go? 'Thou, O Agni, with the days, the shining' is (the hymn) to Jātavedas; in 'Thou' it has the same beginning; just as that with the same end, so that with the same beginning is a symbol of the end. The waters by the sixth day they obtain, Prajāpati the god, brilliance the supreme essence of the deities; the immortal they confer on themselves.