[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) › 27.5.20 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 27.5.20 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 27.5.20 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [27.5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.5.20) triṣṭubhaś catvāri tāni dvāviṃśatiḥ / > xxvii. 3. In that they perform the additional litany of the conjunct (form), thereby they obtain the additional litany. Now this is the milking of the tenth day; they must make up the day so that there may be a thousand and fifteen Anuṣṭubhs; taking out fifteen, then of each hundred four he takes out; thus are fifty-five taken out. Then the rest make up thirty sets of thirty-two. Now this is the Anuṣṭubh of the Stomas and the syllables; the Gāyatrī has eight syllables; the Stoma is the twenty-fourfold; so the Anuṣṭubh of the Stoma and the syllables has thirty-two parts. Now there is the Anuṣṭubh of the Padas; there are six Padas in the Gāyatrī and Uṣṇih; three in the Virāj; these make nine; four in the Bṛhatī; these make thirteen; five in the Paṅkti; these make eighteen; four in the Triṣṭubh; these make twenty-two; in the Jagatī and Atichandas eight; these make thirty; two in the verse of two Padas; these make > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 27.5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.5.19) - [Next: 27.5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.5.21) - [Up: 27.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.5) ## 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.p10) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.27.5.20) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.27.5.20) · Pramāṇa