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The Hotṛ should make his two hands the highest (thinking), > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [27.10.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.2) ūrg vai anna adyam udumbaraḥ / > The udumbara is indeed sap and food; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xxvii. 6. They lay hold of the branch of Udumbara; the Udumbara is strength and proper food; (it serves) for the obtaining of strength and proper food. The Hotṛ should make his two hands the highest (thinking), > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [27.10.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.3) ūrjo anna adyasya upāptyai / > \[they do so\] to obtain sap and food. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xxvii. 6. They lay hold of the branch of Udumbara; the Udumbara is strength and proper food; (it serves) for the obtaining of strength and proper food. The Hotṛ should make his two hands the highest (thinking), > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [27.10.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.4) uttamau pāṇī hotā kurvīta / (soma: daśamam ahah) > The hotṛ should place his hands uppermost, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > xxvii. 6. They lay hold of the branch of Udumbara; the Udumbara is strength and proper food; (it serves) for the obtaining of strength and proper food. The Hotṛ should make his two hands the highest (thinking), > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [27.10.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.5) uttamo asāni iti / > \[thinking,\] 'May I be uppermost.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 'Let me be the highest'; the highest does he become. In silence, with closed eyes, they sit until the Nakṣatras appear; speech do they make to grow strong in that they sit in silence, (thinking) 'Speech grown strong and poured upon may we obtain at the end.' Near the Mārjālīya, when the Nakṣatras (appear), they open their eyes; the Nakṣatras are light; verily thus they place light in themselves. They enter the two oblation holders by the western door; then the Adhvaryu approaching the pole of the northern oblation holder says 'Do thou sing the Prosperity of the Sacrificial Session'; he sings the 'Prosperity of the Sacrificial Session'; thus they obtain the prosperity of the sacrificial session. All perform the finale of the Sāman; the finale is a support; verily (it serves) for support. They creep beneath the axle of the northern oblation holder, muttering an Atichandas verse to Indra ; verily thus by the Atichandas verse the sacrificers smite away evil under the axle. 'We go round (them) to the north', Kauṣītaki used to say, 'following the path of the sacrifice, not being concealed from the Seven Ṛṣis.' Having taken up their places in front of the oblation holders they think of what they desire; whatever they desire 'Let this desire be fulfilled for us,' this desire for them is fulfilled; those who have many desires should mutter the three exclamations, \_bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svar.\_ Having gone out to the east and to the north they vie in invoking speech, (thinking) 'Let not speech be averted.' They release the speech of the Subrahmaṇyā ; the Subrahmaṇyā is the holy power; verily thus with the holy power do they utter speech. They go to the Āgnīdhriya along with the king; this is as if men should conduct the king, or his vicegerent, when wearied to an abode; Soma the king they day by day, having taken down from the oblation holders, conduct to the Agnīdh's altar; at the Āgnīdhriya they settle down with the king. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [27.10.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.6) uttamo ha eva bhavati / > He indeed becomes uppermost. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.7) te vācam yamā āsata ā nakṣatrāṇām darśanāt / (soma: daśamam ahah) > Restraining their speech, they sit until the sighting of the stars. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.8) vācam ha vā etad bhūtāny āpyāyayanti yad vācam yamāni śerate / (soma: daśamam ahah) > Indeed, when beings rest restraining their speech, they invigorate speech, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.9) āpīnām vācam avyāsiktām antata ṛdhnavāma iti / > \[thinking,\] 'May we in the end prosper with swollen, undistributed speech.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.10) dṛśyamāneṣu nakṣatreṣv adīkṣito bahis tiṣṭhann āha dīkṣitā veda iti / (soma: daśamam ahah) > When the stars are visible, an uninitiated person standing outside says, 'The initiated \[knows\]!' or 'He knows!' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.11) aporṇuvanti sadaso dvārau / > They uncover the two doors of the sadas; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.12) evam śālāyai / > likewise of the hall. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.13) te yathā prapannam upaniṣkramya mārjālīyany antena nakṣatreṣu cakṣur visṛjante tac cakṣur deva hitam śukram uccarad iti / (soma: daśamam ahah) > Coming out just as they had entered, along the end of the mārjālīya, they release their sight toward the stars \[reciting\], 'That eye placed by the gods, bright, rising…' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.14) jyotir vai nakṣatrāṇi / > The stars are indeed light; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.15) jyotir eva tad ātman dadhate / > thus they place light in themselves. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.16) te parayā dvārā havir dhāne prapadyante / (soma: daśamam ahah) > They enter the two havirbhāna carts by the farther door. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.17) atha adhvaryur uttarasya havir dhānasya kūbarīm abhipadya āha satrasya ṛdhim gāya iti / (soma: daśamam ahah) > Then the adhvaryu, taking hold of the pole of the northern havirdhāna cart, says, 'Sing the prosperity of the sacrificial session!' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.18) gāyati satrasya ṛdhim / > He sings the prosperity of the sacrificial session; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.19) tat satrasya ṛdhim āpnuvanti / > thereby they attain the prosperity of the sacrificial session. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.20) sarve sāmno nidhanam upayanti / (soma: daśamam ahah) > All join in the finale of the sāman. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.21) pratiṣṭhā vai nidhanam pratiṣṭhityā eva / > The finale is indeed a firm foundation, for the sake of a firm foundation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.22) ta uttareṇa havir dhāne gacchanty adhokṣam vā uttarasya aindrīm aticchandasam japantaḥ / > They go to the north of the two havirdhāna carts, or beneath the axle of the northern \[cart\], muttering an Indra verse in an atichandas metre. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.10.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10.23) aticchandasā eva tad adhokṣam pāpmānam apaghnate / (soma: daśamam ahah) > By the atichandas metre alone they strike away the evil beneath the axle. > — 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.27.p15) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.27.10.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.10) · Pramāṇa