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The Praüga is one to be gathered together; when the Bṛhat Sāman was created, the Praüga which is to be gathered together 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. ‘Great is Indra, manlike, spreading over mortals’ is the Marutvatīya; there is repetition in ‘He hath become broad, wide, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [21.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.2) tasya tāny eva chando rūpāṇi yāni ṣaṣṭhasya ahnaḥ / > Its meter-forms are the very ones that belong to the sixth day. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xxi. 4. They perform the Jyotis as the sixth day; the symbols in its verses are those of the sixth day. ‘O friends, together the seemly’ is the Ājya; ‘O friends’ is the symbol of all; the sixth day has the symbol all; therefore in ‘O friends’ he refers to all. The Praüga is one to be gathered together; when the Bṛhat Sāman was created, the Praüga which is to be gathered together 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. ‘Great is Indra, manlike, spreading over mortals’ is the Marutvatīya; there is repetition in ‘He hath become broad, wide, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [21.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.3) sakhāyaḥ sam vaḥ samyañcam ity ājyam / (soma: abhiplava sadaha) > "Friends, together your united \[speech\]" is the Ājya recitation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xxi. 4. They perform the Jyotis as the sixth day; the symbols in its verses are those of the sixth day. ‘O friends, together the seemly’ is the Ājya; ‘O friends’ is the symbol of all; the sixth day has the symbol all; therefore in ‘O friends’ he refers to all. The Praüga is one to be gathered together; when the Bṛhat Sāman was created, the Praüga which is to be gathered together 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. ‘Great is Indra, manlike, spreading over mortals’ is the Marutvatīya; there is repetition in ‘He hath become broad, wide, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [21.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.4) sakhāya iti sarva rūpam / > "Friends" has all characteristics. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xxi. 4. They perform the Jyotis as the sixth day; the symbols in its verses are those of the sixth day. ‘O friends, together the seemly’ is the Ājya; ‘O friends’ is the symbol of all; the sixth day has the symbol all; therefore in ‘O friends’ he refers to all. The Praüga is one to be gathered together; when the Bṛhat Sāman was created, the Praüga which is to be gathered together 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. ‘Great is Indra, manlike, spreading over mortals’ is the Marutvatīya; there is repetition in ‘He hath become broad, wide, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [21.4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.5) sarva rūpam vai ṣaṣṭham ahaḥ / > Possessing all characteristics indeed is the sixth day. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xxi. 4. They perform the Jyotis as the sixth day; the symbols in its verses are those of the sixth day. ‘O friends, together the seemly’ is the Ājya; ‘O friends’ is the symbol of all; the sixth day has the symbol all; therefore in ‘O friends’ he refers to all. The Praüga is one to be gathered together; when the Bṛhat Sāman was created, the Praüga which is to be gathered together 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. ‘Great is Indra, manlike, spreading over mortals’ is the Marutvatīya; there is repetition in ‘He hath become broad, wide, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [21.4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.6) tasmāt sakhāya iti sarvān eva abhivadati / (soma: abhiplava sadaha) > Therefore, \[with\] "friends", it addresses all indeed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xxi. 4. They perform the Jyotis as the sixth day; the symbols in its verses are those of the sixth day. ‘O friends, together the seemly’ is the Ājya; ‘O friends’ is the symbol of all; the sixth day has the symbol all; therefore in ‘O friends’ he refers to all. The Praüga is one to be gathered together; when the Bṛhat Sāman was created, the Praüga which is to be gathered together 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. ‘Great is Indra, manlike, spreading over mortals’ is the Marutvatīya; there is repetition in ‘He hath become broad, wide, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [21.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.7) saṃhāryaḥ praugaḥ / > The Prauga recitation is the Saṃhārya. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xxi. 4. They perform the Jyotis as the sixth day; the symbols in its verses are those of the sixth day. ‘O friends, together the seemly’ is the Ājya; ‘O friends’ is the symbol of all; the sixth day has the symbol all; therefore in ‘O friends’ he refers to all. The Praüga is one to be gathered together; when the Bṛhat Sāman was created, the Praüga which is to be gathered together 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. ‘Great is Indra, manlike, spreading over mortals’ is the Marutvatīya; there is repetition in ‘He hath become broad, wide, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [21.4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.8) bṛhad vai sāma sṛjyamānam saṃhāryaḥ praugo anvasṛjyata / (soma: abhiplava sadaha) > When the Bṛhat sāman was being created, the Saṃhārya Prauga was created after it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xxi. 4. They perform the Jyotis as the sixth day; the symbols in its verses are those of the sixth day. ‘O friends, together the seemly’ is the Ājya; ‘O friends’ is the symbol of all; the sixth day has the symbol all; therefore in ‘O friends’ he refers to all. The Praüga is one to be gathered together; when the Bṛhat Sāman was created, the Praüga which is to be gathered together 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. ‘Great is Indra, manlike, spreading over mortals’ is the Marutvatīya; there is repetition in ‘He hath become broad, wide, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [21.4.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.9) tad rūpeṇa karma samardhayati / > Thereby he makes the ritual successful through its characteristic. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xxi. 4. They perform the Jyotis as the sixth day; the symbols in its verses are those of the sixth day. ‘O friends, together the seemly’ is the Ājya; ‘O friends’ is the symbol of all; the sixth day has the symbol all; therefore in ‘O friends’ he refers to all. The Praüga is one to be gathered together; when the Bṛhat Sāman was created, the Praüga which is to be gathered together 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. ‘Great is Indra, manlike, spreading over mortals’ is the Marutvatīya; there is repetition in ‘He hath become broad, wide, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [21.4.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.10) etad vā ārdhnukam karma yad rūpa samṛddham / (soma: abhiplava sadaha) > That ritual indeed is prosperous which is rich in its proper characteristic. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xxi. 4. They perform the Jyotis as the sixth day; the symbols in its verses are those of the sixth day. ‘O friends, together the seemly’ is the Ājya; ‘O friends’ is the symbol of all; the sixth day has the symbol all; therefore in ‘O friends’ he refers to all. The Praüga is one to be gathered together; when the Bṛhat Sāman was created, the Praüga which is to be gathered together 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. ‘Great is Indra, manlike, spreading over mortals’ is the Marutvatīya; there is repetition in ‘He hath become broad, wide, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [21.4.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.11) mahān indro nṛvadā carṣaṇiprā iti marutvatīyam / > "Great is Indra, manly, filling the peoples" is the Marutvatīya recitation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xxi. 4. They perform the Jyotis as the sixth day; the symbols in its verses are those of the sixth day. ‘O friends, together the seemly’ is the Ājya; ‘O friends’ is the symbol of all; the sixth day has the symbol all; therefore in ‘O friends’ he refers to all. The Praüga is one to be gathered together; when the Bṛhat Sāman was created, the Praüga which is to be gathered together 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. ‘Great is Indra, manlike, spreading over mortals’ is the Marutvatīya; there is repetition in ‘He hath become broad, wide, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [21.4.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.12) uruḥ pṛthuḥ sukṛtaḥ kartṛbhir bhūd iti ninartiḥ / (soma: abhiplava sadaha) > "Wide, broad, well-made by the makers has he become" is a dancing-phrase. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xxi. 4. They perform the Jyotis as the sixth day; the symbols in its verses are those of the sixth day. ‘O friends, together the seemly’ is the Ājya; ‘O friends’ is the symbol of all; the sixth day has the symbol all; therefore in ‘O friends’ he refers to all. The Praüga is one to be gathered together; when the Bṛhat Sāman was created, the Praüga which is to be gathered together 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. ‘Great is Indra, manlike, spreading over mortals’ is the Marutvatīya; there is repetition in ‘He hath become broad, wide, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [21.4.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.13) antaḥ ṣaṣṭham ahaḥ / > The end is the sixth day. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 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. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [21.4.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.14) nīva vā antam gatvā nṛtyati / > Having gone to the end, as it were, one dances. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [21.4.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.15) kadryan hi tata iyāt / (soma: abhiplava sadaha) > Whither indeed would one go from there? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [21.4.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.16) yo jāta eva prathamo manasvān iti niṣkevalyam / > "He who, as soon as born, the first, thoughtful" is the Niṣkevalya recitation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [21.4.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.17) tasya tad eva anta rūpam yad bhūta anuvādi yo dāsam varṇam adharam guhākari iti / (abhiplava sadaha) > Its characteristic of the end is just that which narrates what was in the past: "He who placed the Dāsa color down in hiding". > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [21.4.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.18) yad etad bhūtam iva abhi / > in that this is as it were \[in the\] past. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [21.4.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4.19) sodarkam bhavati tad dvitīyam anta rūpam / (soma: abhiplava sadaha) > It has an udarka refrain; that is the second end-form. > — 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.21.p8) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.21.4.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Ṛgvedaśāṅkhāyanīyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.rgvedasankhayaniyabrahmana.26.4-2) — Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.rgvedabrahmana.21.4-2) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.21.4) · Pramāṇa