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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) ### [23.9.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.8) ayam ity aniruktam / > 'This' is unexpressed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.9) anirukta u vai prajāpatiḥ / > Prajāpati is indeed unexpressed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.10) tat prājāpatyam rūpam / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > That is a form pertaining to Prajāpati. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.11) aticchandasa sapta padāḥ punaḥ padāḥ / > The aticchandas \[verses\] have seven pādas, with repeated pādas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.12) yad etad ahas tad etāḥ / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > What this day is, that are these \[verses\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.13) na padam ca punaḥ padam ca antareṇa ava anyat / > One should not breathe out between the pāda and the repeated pāda. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.14) ātmā vai padam prāṇaḥ punaḥ padam / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > The pāda is the self; the repeated pāda is breath. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.15) yas tam tatra brūyāt / > If someone were to say of him there: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.18) āticchandasa praugaḥ / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > The prauga \[śastra\] is in aticchandas metres. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.19) āticchandasam vai ṣaṣṭham ahaḥ / > The sixth day indeed belongs to the aticchandas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.20) tad enat svena chandasā samardhayati / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > Thus he makes it prosper with its own metre. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.22) sa ity aniruktam / > "He" is unexpressed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.23) anirukta u vai prajāpatiḥ / > And Prajāpati is indeed unexpressed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [23.9.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9.24) tat prājāpatyam rūpam / (soma: pṛṣṭhya sadaha) > That is a form relating to Prajāpati. > — 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.23.p12) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.23.9.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.5.12) — Mahidāsa Aitareya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.23.9) · Pramāṇa