[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) › 23.9.7 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 23.9.7 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 23.9.7 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [23.9.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.7) ayam jāyata manuṣo dharīmaṇi ity ājyam / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > 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 > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 23.9.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.6) - [Next: 23.9.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.8) - [Up: 23.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9) ## Translations (2) - [Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-keith.23.p12) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.23.9.7) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.7) · Pramāṇa