[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) › 24.4.2 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 24.4.2 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 24.4.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [24.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.24.4.2) tasya atrayas tamo apajighāṃsanta etam saptadaśa stomam tryaham purastād viṣuvata upāyan / (soma: svara sāman) > xxiv. 3. Svarbhānu, an Asura, pierced with darkness the sun; the Atris were fain to smite away its darkness; they performed, before the Viṣuvant, this set of three days, with the Saptadaça Stoma. They smote away the darkness in front of it; that settled behind ; they performed the same three-day (rite) after the Viṣuvant; they smote away the darkness behind it. Those who perform, knowing thus, this three-day (rite) with the Saptadaça Stoma on both sides of the Viṣuvant, verily those sacrificers smite away evil from both worlds. They call them the Svarasāmans; by them the Atris rescued (\_apaspṛṇvata\_) the sun from the darkness; in that they rescued, therefore are they Svarasāmans. This is declared in a Ṛc, > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 24.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.24.4.1) - [Next: 24.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.24.4.3) - [Up: 24.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.24.4) ## Translations (2) - [Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-keith.24.p8) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.24.4.2) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.24.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.24.4.2) · Pramāṇa