Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 27.3

27.3.1

hotā prātar anuvāke sampādayet /

The hotṛ should supply [them] in the morning recitation.

27.3.2

na ādriyeta atra eva sampannam /

He should not mind; it is accomplished right here.

27.3.3

uṣṇig udaiti iti menimahe / (soma: daśamam ahah)

"An Uṣṇih arises," so we think.

27.3.4

gāyatrī vā /

Or rather, [it is] Gāyatrī.

27.3.5

tām prātar anuvāke sampādayet /

One should make it correspond in the morning litany.

27.3.6

na ādriyeta atra vai sampannam /

One should not heed that; right here indeed it has corresponded.

27.3.7

agne tam adya aśvam na stomair ity ājyam / (soma: daśamam ahah)

The ājya [recitation] is: "Agni, today like a horse with praises…"

xxvii. 2. 'O Agni, this to-day as a steed with praises' is the Ājya. That being created for the tenth day he need not make up. He need not trouble as to this; it is made up here. The Praüga is by Madhuchandas; the explanation of this has been given. With an Atichandas (verse), 'In the three bowls the bull that mixed with barley, he of strong power,' he begins the Marutvatīya. It made up amounts to sixty-four syllables; these make up two Anuṣṭubhs. 'Sing aloud to Indra' and 'Forward to Indra, the great', these two Pragāthas he recites along with the 'Water swellers' before the hymn; so it is made up. 'Thou hast been born dread, for

27.3.8

tad etat sṛṣṭam daśamāya ahne na sampādayet /

This has been created for the tenth day; one should not make [it] correspond.

xxvii. 2. 'O Agni, this to-day as a steed with praises' is the Ājya. That being created for the tenth day he need not make up. He need not trouble as to this; it is made up here. The Praüga is by Madhuchandas; the explanation of this has been given. With an Atichandas (verse), 'In the three bowls the bull that mixed with barley, he of strong power,' he begins the Marutvatīya. It made up amounts to sixty-four syllables; these make up two Anuṣṭubhs. 'Sing aloud to Indra' and 'Forward to Indra, the great', these two Pragāthas he recites along with the 'Water swellers' before the hymn; so it is made up. 'Thou hast been born dread, for

27.3.9

na ādriyeta atra eva sampannam / (soma: daśamam ahah)

One should not heed that; right here it has corresponded.

xxvii. 2. 'O Agni, this to-day as a steed with praises' is the Ājya. That being created for the tenth day he need not make up. He need not trouble as to this; it is made up here. The Praüga is by Madhuchandas; the explanation of this has been given. With an Atichandas (verse), 'In the three bowls the bull that mixed with barley, he of strong power,' he begins the Marutvatīya. It made up amounts to sixty-four syllables; these make up two Anuṣṭubhs. 'Sing aloud to Indra' and 'Forward to Indra, the great', these two Pragāthas he recites along with the 'Water swellers' before the hymn; so it is made up. 'Thou hast been born dread, for

27.3.10

mādhuc chandasaḥ praugas tasya uktam brāhmaṇam /

The prauga [recitation] is by Madhucchandas; its Brāhmaṇa explanation has been stated.

xxvii. 2. 'O Agni, this to-day as a steed with praises' is the Ājya. That being created for the tenth day he need not make up. He need not trouble as to this; it is made up here. The Praüga is by Madhuchandas; the explanation of this has been given. With an Atichandas (verse), 'In the three bowls the bull that mixed with barley, he of strong power,' he begins the Marutvatīya. It made up amounts to sixty-four syllables; these make up two Anuṣṭubhs. 'Sing aloud to Indra' and 'Forward to Indra, the great', these two Pragāthas he recites along with the 'Water swellers' before the hymn; so it is made up. 'Thou hast been born dread, for

27.3.11

trikadrukeṣu mahiṣo yavāśiram tuviśuṣma ity aticchandasā marutvatīyam pratipadyate / (soma: daśamam ahah)

With the aticchandas verse, "At the three Trikadruka pressings the buffalo, barley-mixed, powerful…," he begins the Marutvatīya [recitation].

xxvii. 2. 'O Agni, this to-day as a steed with praises' is the Ājya. That being created for the tenth day he need not make up. He need not trouble as to this; it is made up here. The Praüga is by Madhuchandas; the explanation of this has been given. With an Atichandas (verse), 'In the three bowls the bull that mixed with barley, he of strong power,' he begins the Marutvatīya. It made up amounts to sixty-four syllables; these make up two Anuṣṭubhs. 'Sing aloud to Indra' and 'Forward to Indra, the great', these two Pragāthas he recites along with the 'Water swellers' before the hymn; so it is made up. 'Thou hast been born dread, for

27.3.12

sā sampannā catuḥ ṣaṣṭy akṣarā /

It, when made to correspond, has sixty-four syllables.

xxvii. 2. 'O Agni, this to-day as a steed with praises' is the Ājya. That being created for the tenth day he need not make up. He need not trouble as to this; it is made up here. The Praüga is by Madhuchandas; the explanation of this has been given. With an Atichandas (verse), 'In the three bowls the bull that mixed with barley, he of strong power,' he begins the Marutvatīya. It made up amounts to sixty-four syllables; these make up two Anuṣṭubhs. 'Sing aloud to Indra' and 'Forward to Indra, the great', these two Pragāthas he recites along with the 'Water swellers' before the hymn; so it is made up. 'Thou hast been born dread, for

27.3.13

te dve anuṣṭubhau sampadyete /

They amount to two Anuṣṭubhs.

xxvii. 2. 'O Agni, this to-day as a steed with praises' is the Ājya. That being created for the tenth day he need not make up. He need not trouble as to this; it is made up here. The Praüga is by Madhuchandas; the explanation of this has been given. With an Atichandas (verse), 'In the three bowls the bull that mixed with barley, he of strong power,' he begins the Marutvatīya. It made up amounts to sixty-four syllables; these make up two Anuṣṭubhs. 'Sing aloud to Indra' and 'Forward to Indra, the great', these two Pragāthas he recites along with the 'Water swellers' before the hymn; so it is made up. 'Thou hast been born dread, for

27.3.14

tat sampannam / (soma: daśamam ahah)

Thus it has corresponded.

xxvii. 2. 'O Agni, this to-day as a steed with praises' is the Ājya. That being created for the tenth day he need not make up. He need not trouble as to this; it is made up here. The Praüga is by Madhuchandas; the explanation of this has been given. With an Atichandas (verse), 'In the three bowls the bull that mixed with barley, he of strong power,' he begins the Marutvatīya. It made up amounts to sixty-four syllables; these make up two Anuṣṭubhs. 'Sing aloud to Indra' and 'Forward to Indra, the great', these two Pragāthas he recites along with the 'Water swellers' before the hymn; so it is made up. 'Thou hast been born dread, for

27.3.15

pinvanty apīyayā dvau pragāthau saṃśaṃsati bṛhad indrāya gāyata pra va indrāya bṛhata iti / (soma: daśamam ahah)

With "They swell with water…" he recites two pragāthas: "Sing great things for Indra…" and "For Indra, the great, [bring forward]…"

xxvii. 2. 'O Agni, this to-day as a steed with praises' is the Ājya. That being created for the tenth day he need not make up. He need not trouble as to this; it is made up here. The Praüga is by Madhuchandas; the explanation of this has been given. With an Atichandas (verse), 'In the three bowls the bull that mixed with barley, he of strong power,' he begins the Marutvatīya. It made up amounts to sixty-four syllables; these make up two Anuṣṭubhs. 'Sing aloud to Indra' and 'Forward to Indra, the great', these two Pragāthas he recites along with the 'Water swellers' before the hymn; so it is made up. 'Thou hast been born dread, for

27.3.16

tat sampannam /

Thus it has corresponded.

xxvii. 2. 'O Agni, this to-day as a steed with praises' is the Ājya. That being created for the tenth day he need not make up. He need not trouble as to this; it is made up here. The Praüga is by Madhuchandas; the explanation of this has been given. With an Atichandas (verse), 'In the three bowls the bull that mixed with barley, he of strong power,' he begins the Marutvatīya. It made up amounts to sixty-four syllables; these make up two Anuṣṭubhs. 'Sing aloud to Indra' and 'Forward to Indra, the great', these two Pragāthas he recites along with the 'Water swellers' before the hymn; so it is made up. 'Thou hast been born dread, for

27.3.17

aikāhikam marutvatīyam /

The Marutvatīya [recitation] belongs to the one-day rite.

impetuous strength' is the Marutvatīya of the one-day (rite); the one-day (rite) is a support; verily (it serves) for support. 'With what hath he come, the brilliant one?' and 'With what aid thou to us?', on the basis of the Vāmadevya is imposed the Rathantara. The Sāman is for Agni and is performed on Indra verses; this is a pairing, a symbol of generation. There are as many Uṣṇih triads as Pragāthas; one verse of two Padas forms the inserted verse, another the seventeenth of the hymn; this is made up. 'I shall proclaim the manly deeds of Indra' is the Niṣkevalya of the one-day (rite); the one-day (rite) is a support; the tenth day is a support; the two (verses of) two Padas are a metre on which to find support; verily (they serve) for support. 'To the god Savitṛ in the bowls the sage,' with this Atichandas verse he begins the Vaiçvadeva; it made up amounts to sixty-four syllables; these make up two Anuṣṭubhs; the antistrophe contains (the word) 'towards'; the explanation of this has been given. Then, before the 'Prosperity to us' hymn, he recites the 'Forward the bright' hymn; the one-day (rite) is a support; the tenth day is a support; (the verses) of two Padas are a metre on which to find support; verily (they serve) for support. The Agniṣṭoma Sāman as the Vāmadevya is performed on Virāj verses; the Virāj is prosperity and proper food; (verily they serve) to obtain the Virāj as prosperity and proper food. Moreover the Vāmadevya is healing and medicine; verily thus at the end in the sacrifice are healing and medicine produced.

27.3.18

pratiṣṭhā vā ekāhaḥ pratiṣṭhityā eva / (soma: daśamam ahah)

The one-day rite is a firm foundation, solely for a firm foundation.