[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) › 23.1 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 23.1 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 23.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [23.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.1) antas tṛtīyam ahaḥ / > The third day is an end. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.2) te devā antam gatvā caturtham ahar aicchan / > Having reached the end, those gods sought the fourth day. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.3) tasmād icchadvat / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > Therefore it contains \[the verbal root\] 'to seek' (iṣ-). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.4) tad iṣṭvā avindan / > Having sought it, they found it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.5) tasmād vittavat / > Therefore it contains \[the verbal root\] 'to find' (vid-). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.6) tad āhur yad antas tṛtīyam ahar atha kasmāc caturthe ahan nyūṅkhayati iti / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > Concerning this they say: 'Since the third day is the end, why then does he introduce the nyūṅkha on the fourth day?' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.7) vāca eva tad āyatanam virājo yac caturtham ahaḥ / > That which is the fourth day is the abode of speech, of the Virāj. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.10) annam virāḍ annam vāk / > Food is the Virāj; food is speech. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.11) tām eva etac caturthe ahan vibhāvayati / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > It is that very \[speech\] which he thus elaborates on the fourth day. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.12) yathā ayas taptam vinayed evam tat / > Just as one would bend heated metal, so is that. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.13) vāco vibhūtyai / > It is for the manifold development of speech. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.14) tasya etāni chando rūpāṇi / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > These are its metric marks: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.15) saṃrāḍvad virāḍvat svarāḍvaj jātavad ūtimad vītimat parivad abhivad upavad iti / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > containing saṃrāj, containing virāj, containing svarāj, containing jāta, containing ūti, containing vīti, containing pari, containing abhi, containing upa. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.16) āgnim na sva vṛktibhir iti vaimadam ājyam / > "Agni with our own praises..." \[RV 10.21.1\] is the Vaimada Ājya recitation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.17) vimadena vai devā asurān vyamadan / > By means of Vimada, indeed, the gods intoxicated and drove away the Asuras. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.18) tad yac caturthe ahan vimadaḥ śasyate madhyataś ca hotrāsu ca / > So when \[the hymn of\] Vimada is recited on the fourth day, both in the middle and in the Hotrā recitations, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.19) aṅgād aṅgād eva tad yajamānāḥ pāpmānam vimadanti / > the sacrificers thereby indeed drive away evil from limb after limb. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.20) agnir jāto atharvaṇā iti jātavat / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) āgnim(pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > "Agni produced by Atharvan..." \[RV 10.21.5\] contains \[the word\] 'born' (jātavat). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.21) tad etasya ahno rūpam / > That is the characteristic mark of this day. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.22) tāḥ saṃśastā daśa jagatyaḥ sampadyante / > When fully recited, they amount to ten Jagatīs. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.23) jagat prātaḥ savano hy eṣa tryahaḥ / > For this three-day period has the Jagatī at the morning pressing. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.24) viṃśatir gāyatrīḥ / > \[Or\] twenty Gāyatrīs. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.25) gāyatrī prātaḥ savanam vahati / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > The Gāyatrī bears the morning pressing. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.26) tad u ha prātaḥ savana rūpān na apaiti / > And thus it does not depart from the characteristic form of the morning pressing. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.27) iti nu vyūḍhe / > This is the case in the shifted \[order of metres\] (vyūḍha). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.28) uddhṛtya etad agnim naro dīdhitibhir araṇyor iti samūḍhe vairājam ājyam / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > Having set that aside, "Men \[rubbed\] Agni with their fingers in the two kindling sticks..." \[RV 7.1.1\] is the Vairāja Ājya recitation in the unshifted \[order\] (samūḍha). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.29) vairājam pṛṣṭham tat saloma / > The Pṛṣṭha is Vairāja; therefore it accords with it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.30) vāsiṣṭham ājyam / > It is the Vāsiṣṭha Ājya recitation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.31) vāsiṣṭham pṛṣṭham tat saloma / > The Pṛṣṭha is Vāsiṣṭha; therefore it accords with it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.32) hasta cyutī janayanta praśastam iti jātavat / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > "Moving their hands, they generated the praised one..." \[RV 7.1.1\] contains \[the word\] 'born' (jātavat). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.33) tad etasya ahno rūpam / > That is the characteristic mark of this day. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.34) ānuṣṭubhaḥ praugaḥ / > The Prauga recitation is in the Anuṣṭubh metre. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.35) ānuṣṭubham vai caturtham ahaḥ / > The fourth day, indeed, belongs to the Anuṣṭubh. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.1.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1.36) tad enat svena chandasā samardhayati / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > Thus he prospers it with its own metre. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.23.1.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.1) · Pramāṇa