[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) › 28.3.31 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 28.3.31 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 28.3.31 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [28.3.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.28.3.31) tad enān indraḥ soma pīthe anvābheje / (soma: hotraka śastrāṇi(prātaḥ savanam)) > tion of this has been given. The Maitrāvaruṇa uses (a verse) to Mitra and Varuṇa, ‘Mitra we hail,’ to secure that the beginning of the sacrifice shall be provided with its own deity. ‘Indra thee as a bull we’, (this verse) to Indra the Brāhmaṇācchaṅsin (uses), for the sacrificial rite is connected with Indra. ‘O Maruts in whose dwelling’, (this verse) to the Maruts the Potṛ (uses); when the Maruts purified Indra, then Indra gave them a share in the Soma drinking; therefore is it (a verse) addressed to the Maruts that the Potṛ uses as offering verse at the first and at the last. ‘O Agni bring hither the wives’, (this verse) which contains (the words) ‘O Agni, with the wives’ and (the word) ‘Tvaṣṭṛ,’ the Neṣṭṛ uses at the first and at the last; Agni is the one of the gods who is connected with (the words) ‘with the wives’, the Neṣṭṛ is the one of the priests (so connected); therefore it is (a verse) which contains (the words) ‘Agni with the wives’ and (the word) ‘Tvaṣṭṛ’ that the Neṣṭṛ uses as offering verse at the first and at the last. ‘To him whose food is the ox, whose food the cow’, (this verse) to Agni is used by the Agnīdh; he kindles the fires; therefore the Agnīdh uses (this verse) to Agni as offering verse at the first and at the last. They repeat the second vaṣaṭ, for the healing of the libations, for the support of the libations. Then comes the sacrificial food, then the bowl of the Hotṛ; the explanation of this has been given. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 28.3.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.28.3.30) - [Next: 28.3.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.28.3.32) - [Up: 28.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.28.3) ## Translations (2) - [Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-keith.28.p6) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.28.3.31) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.28.3.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.28.3.31) · Pramāṇa