Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 30.3.20

30.3.20

tārkṣye dūrohaṇam rohati /

xxx. 5. In the Tārkṣya he mounts the difficult mounting; Tārkṣya is Vāyu; Vāyu is breath verily thus he places breath in him; him he hands over to the Brāhmaṇācchaṅsin. Him he receives in the womb of the Sukīrti (hymn ); for him born he recites in Paṅkti form with repetition of *o* the Vṛṣākapi (hymn); the repetition of *o* is food; verily thus born he finds support in proper food. Then he recites the Kuntāpa according to the metres, for the obtaining of all desires; viz. the Nārāçaṅsīs, the Raibhīs, the Kāravyās, the Indragāthās, the Bhūtechads, the Parikṣit verses, and the prattle of Etaça. Etaça, the sage, saw the life of the sacrifice. He said to his sons 'My boys, I have seen the life of the sacrifice; that I shall prattle forth; think me not mad.' They said 'Be it so.' Then he prattled it forth; his eldest son, creeping up, stopped his mouth, (saying) 'Our father has become mad.' To him he said 'Be gone; fie on thee, O fool; I make thine offspring the worst; hadst thou not, O fool, stopped my mouth, I had made the cow of a hundred (years of) life, and man of a thousand.' Therefore the descendants of Etaça being the Ājāneyas are the worst of the Bhṛgus, for they are under curse by a father, their own deity, their own Prajāpati.