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Now all the metres here he converts into the Anuṣṭubh; there is this (verse) > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [27.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.2.7) na id vācam āsīdāma iti / > \[thinking:\] "Lest we oppress speech." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 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) > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [27.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.2.8) atha itarāṇi chandāṃsy anuṣṭubham abhisampādayati / (soma: daśamam ahah) > Then he transforms the other metres into the Anuṣṭubh. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 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) > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [27.2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.2.9) tad etann āha eva abhimṛśe śūdrām / > Regarding this, one says: "I do not touch a Śūdra woman, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > '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,' > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [27.2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.2.10) no enām prasisṛkṣāmi / > nor do I wish to let her go; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > '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,' > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [27.2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > '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,' > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [27.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.2.12) anuṣṭubb hy eṣā daśame ahan parigītā / > For this Anuṣṭubh is sung around on the tenth day. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > for on the tenth day here the Anuṣṭubh is sung around. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [27.2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) > 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. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [27.2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.2.14) virājas tatra anubrūyāt / > He should recite Virāj verses there. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.2.15) samānam vā etac chando yad virāṭ ca anuṣṭup ca / (soma: daśamam ahah) > For Virāj and Anuṣṭubh are the same metre; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.2.16) na hy ekena akṣareṇa anyac chando bhavati / > for by one syllable it does not become another metre, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.2.17) no dvābhyām iti / > nor by two." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.2.18) tayor vā etayos tṛcayoḥ ṣaḍ akṣarāṇy abhyudyanti / (soma: daśamam ahah) > In those very two triplets, six syllables are in excess: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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 \[in each\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [27.2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.2.20) tāni dvādaśa akṣarāṇi / (soma: daśamam ahah) > Those are twelve syllables. > — 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.p4) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.27.2.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.2) · Pramāṇa