[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) › 25.14 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 25.14 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 25.14 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [25.14.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.1) vaiśye vaset / > He should reside among a vaiśya; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.2) vaiśyo vai puṣyati iva / > the vaiśya indeed thrives, as it were, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.3) yad vaiśye anna adyam tasya upāptyai / > for the attainment of whatever food is in a vaiśya. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.4) kṣatriye vaset / > He should reside among a kṣatriya; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.5) etad vai para ardhyam anna adyam yat kṣatriyaḥ / (soma: viśvajit) > For this is the highest food, namely the kṣatriya. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.6) para ardhyasya anna adyasya upāptyai / > It is to obtain the highest food. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.7) brāhmaṇe samān gotre vaset / (soma: viśvajit) > He should dwell with a brāhmaṇa of the same gotra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.8) yat samāne gotre anna adyam tasya upāptyai / > It is to obtain the food that is within the same gotra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.9) saṃvatsaram cared adhaḥ saṃveśya phāla kṛṣṭāśya pratigṛhṇan na annam yācann idam tat tad anuvasānaḥ.(.phāla kṛṣṭāśyaprati?) / > For a year he should wander, sleeping on the ground, eating \[only food\] ploughed by the share, accepting \[what is offered\], not begging for food, wearing whatever \[clothing he obtains\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.10) tat tena anuvaste / (soma: viśvajit) > He clothes himself with that. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.11) dvādaśa rātram caritvā atha.(?).anyasyai bubhūṣāyai syād iti ha sma āha kauṣītakiḥ / > “After wandering for twelve nights, he should then be ready for another prosperity,” Kauṣītaki used to say. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.12) dvādaśa vai māsāḥ saṃvatsaraḥ / (soma: viśvajit) > “The year consists indeed of twelve months; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.13) sā saṃvatsarasya pratimā iti / > it is the image of the year.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.14) prājāpatyāny aniruktāni hotrāṇām ājyāni bhavanti / (soma: viśvajit) > The ājya \[recitations\] of the hotrakas belong to Prajāpati and are unexpressed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.15) tasya tā naḥ śaktam pārthivasya yuñjanti bradhnam aruṣam tā hi śaśvanta īḍate tam īḍiṣva yo arciṣā iti vā stotriyāḥ / > Their stotriya verses are: “Enable us, of the earthly…”; “They yoke the ruddy steed…”; “Them indeed continuously they praise…”; or “Praise him who with flame…”. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.16) ye ṣaṣṭhasya ahnaḥ stotriyās te viśvajito anurūpāḥ / (soma: viśvajit) > Those that are the stotriya verses of the sixth day are the anurūpa verses of the Viśvajit. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.17) prājāpatyam vai ṣaṣṭham ahaḥ / > For the sixth day belongs to Prajāpati; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.18) prajāpatir viśvajit / > the Viśvajit is Prajāpati. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.19) itare pañca tad uktham / > The other five \[verses\] are that recitation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.20) paryāsaiḥ paridadhati / (soma: viśvajit) > With the concluding couplets they conclude. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.21) pratiṣṭhā vai paryāsāḥ / > The concluding couplets are indeed a firm foundation; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.14.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14.22) pratiṣṭhityā eva pratiṣṭhtyā eva / (soma: viśvajit) > \[it is\] for a firm foundation, for a firm foundation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.25.14.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.25.14) · Pramāṇa