Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 27.2

27.2.1

yadi tathā na manyeta /

If he does not think so,

27.2.2

tam praty eva vibrūyāt /

he should speak out directly against him.

27.2.3

utsṛjyate daśame ahany anuṣṭup /

The Anuṣṭubh is omitted on the tenth day.

27.2.4

vāg anuṣṭup /

The Anuṣṭubh is speech.

27.2.5

sā eṣā vāg vrata dohuṣī krūra vahā iva bhavati / (soma: daśamam ahah)

This speech, being a milch-cow of vows, becomes, as it were, fierce-bearing.

27.2.6

tasmād utsṛjyate /

Therefore it is omitted,

Therefore is it released, (as they think) 'Let us not consort with speech.' Now all the metres here he converts into the Anuṣṭubh; there is this (verse)

27.2.7

na id vācam āsīdāma iti /

[thinking:] "Lest we oppress speech."

Therefore is it released, (as they think) 'Let us not consort with speech.' Now all the metres here he converts into the Anuṣṭubh; there is this (verse)

27.2.8

atha itarāṇi chandāṃsy anuṣṭubham abhisampādayati / (soma: daśamam ahah)

Then he transforms the other metres into the Anuṣṭubh.

Therefore is it released, (as they think) 'Let us not consort with speech.' Now all the metres here he converts into the Anuṣṭubh; there is this (verse)

27.2.9

tad etann āha eva abhimṛśe śūdrām /

Regarding this, one says: "I do not touch a Śūdra woman,

'Her I touch not as being a Çūdrā;
Yet will I not let her go;
Nowhere else do I go;
To a courtesan is my approaching,'

27.2.10

no enām prasisṛkṣāmi /

nor do I wish to let her go;

'Her I touch not as being a Çūdrā;
Yet will I not let her go;
Nowhere else do I go;
To a courtesan is my approaching,'

27.2.11

no tv eva anyatra yāmaka pauṃścalvāyanam me asti iti / (soma: daśamam ahah)

nor indeed is there for me elsewhere a twin-like whoring."

'Her I touch not as being a Çūdrā;
Yet will I not let her go;
Nowhere else do I go;
To a courtesan is my approaching,'

27.2.12

anuṣṭubb hy eṣā daśame ahan parigītā /

For this Anuṣṭubh is sung around on the tenth day.

for on the tenth day here the Anuṣṭubh is sung around.

27.2.13

tad āhur na anuṣṭubha āyatanam riñcyāt / (soma: daśamam ahah)

Regarding that they say: "One should not leave the abode of the Anuṣṭubh empty.

They say, 'He should not abandon the abode of the Anuṣṭubh; there should he recite Virāj verses; the Virāj and the Anuṣṭubh are the same metre, for not by one syllable is a metre made different, nor yet by two.' Of these two triplets there are six syllables over, and six of the strophe and antistrophe of the Agniṣṭoma Sāman; these twelve syllables the Hotṛ should make up in the morning litany. He need not trouble as to this; it is made up here. 'There is an Uṣṇih additional,' we hold, 'or a Gāyatrī; that he should make up at the morning litany.' He need not trouble about this; it is made up here.

27.2.14

virājas tatra anubrūyāt /

He should recite Virāj verses there.

27.2.15

samānam vā etac chando yad virāṭ ca anuṣṭup ca / (soma: daśamam ahah)

For Virāj and Anuṣṭubh are the same metre;

27.2.16

na hy ekena akṣareṇa anyac chando bhavati /

for by one syllable it does not become another metre,

27.2.17

no dvābhyām iti /

nor by two."

27.2.18

tayor vā etayos tṛcayoḥ ṣaḍ akṣarāṇy abhyudyanti / (soma: daśamam ahah)

In those very two triplets, six syllables are in excess:

27.2.19

agnim naro dīdhitibhir araṇyor agniṣṭoma sāmnaḥ stotriya anurūpayoḥ ṣaṭ /

"Agni, O men, with your reflections, from the two fire-sticks..." in the stotriya and anurūpa verses of the Agniṣṭoma-sāman, [there are] six [in each].

27.2.20

tāni dvādaśa akṣarāṇi / (soma: daśamam ahah)

Those are twelve syllables.