Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 23.9

23.9.1

tad yat tad ahar hotā eva vaṣaṭ kuryāt /

Now if on that day the hotṛ alone were to make the vaṣaṭ-call,

23.9.2

hotā enayor deva āyatanam sampṛñcīta adhvaryoś ca gṛha pateś ca / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha)

the hotṛ would blend the domain of the gods of both the adhvaryu and the householder.

23.9.3

ājim ha vā ete yanti svarge loke ṣaṣṭhena ahnā /

They run a race, as it were, into the heavenly world on the sixth day.

23.9.4

sa yo anavānam samāpayati sa svargaṃl lokam ujjayati / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha)

He who finishes without taking breath wins the heavenly world.

23.9.5

yady apy ava anyat /

Even if he must breathe out,

23.9.6

punaḥ punaḥ pratisāram upaśikṣeta eva /

he should strive by pressing on again and again.

23.9.7

ayam jāyata manuṣo dharīmaṇi ity ājyam / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha)

'This [Agni] was born in the support of Manu' is the ājya [śastra].

xxiii. 6. ‘He is born in the ordinance of Manu’ is the Ājya, with no deity mentioned by name in ‘he’; Prajāpati is he (whose name is) not mentioned; this is a symbol of Prajāpati. They are beyond the normal metres, having seven Padas, and have repeated Padas; in that it is this day, they are thus. He should not draw in breath between the Pada and the repeated Pada; the Pada is the body, the repeated Pada the breaths; if one should say of him who breathes in at this point, ‘He has separated the body from the breath; he will not live’, so would it be. Therefore he should not draw in breath between the Pada and the repeated Pada. The Praüga is in a metre beyond the normal; the sixth day is connected with a metre beyond the normal; verily thus he makes it successful with its own metre. ‘He first of the great’ is the strophe of the Marutvatīya; in ‘he’ no deity is mentioned by name; Prajāpati is he (whose name is) not mentioned; this is a symbol of Prajāpati. ‘The chariot which thou, O Indra, for the

23.9.8

ayam ity aniruktam /

'This' is unexpressed.

23.9.9

anirukta u vai prajāpatiḥ /

Prajāpati is indeed unexpressed.

23.9.10

tat prājāpatyam rūpam / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha)

That is a form pertaining to Prajāpati.

23.9.11

aticchandasa sapta padāḥ punaḥ padāḥ /

The aticchandas [verses] have seven pādas, with repeated pādas.

23.9.12

yad etad ahas tad etāḥ / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha)

What this day is, that are these [verses].

23.9.13

na padam ca punaḥ padam ca antareṇa ava anyat /

One should not breathe out between the pāda and the repeated pāda.

23.9.14

ātmā vai padam prāṇaḥ punaḥ padam / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha)

The pāda is the self; the repeated pāda is breath.

23.9.15

yas tam tatra brūyāt /

If someone were to say of him there:

23.9.16

prāṇād ātmānam antaragān na jīviṣyati iti tathā ha syāt / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha)

'He has separated the self from breath; he will not live,' it would indeed happen so.

23.9.17

tasmān na padam ca punaḥ padam ca antareṇa ava anyāt /

Therefore one should not breathe out between the pāda and the repeated pāda.

23.9.18

āticchandasa praugaḥ / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha)

The prauga [śastra] is in aticchandas metres.

23.9.19

āticchandasam vai ṣaṣṭham ahaḥ /

The sixth day indeed belongs to the aticchandas.

23.9.20

tad enat svena chandasā samardhayati / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha)

Thus he makes it prosper with its own metre.

23.9.21

sa pūrvyo mahānām iti marutvatīyasya pratipat /

"He who of old of the great ones" is the opening verse of the Marutvatīya recitation.

23.9.22

sa ity aniruktam /

"He" is unexpressed.

23.9.23

anirukta u vai prajāpatiḥ /

And Prajāpati is indeed unexpressed.

23.9.24

tat prājāpatyam rūpam / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha)

That is a form relating to Prajāpati.