[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) › 30.6.11 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 30.6.11 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 30.6.11 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [30.6.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.30.6.11) tad āhuḥ kasmād vālakhilyā iti / > Evayāmarut (hymn ) makes to move when born; he repeats \*o\*; stumbling as it were one moves when first desirous to walk; verily thus from the immortal metre he propagates him for immortality; they obtain immortality who perform the sixth day (rite). Having recited the strophe and antistrophe, he recites the Vālakhilyās; the strophe and antistrophe are the body, the Vālakhilyās the breaths; these breaths are not separated (from the body). They say ‘Why are they (called) Vālakhilyās?’ That which is not in contact in two fields, they call Khila; these breaths are a hair (\*vāla\*) in breadth and are not separated; therefore are they Vālakhilyās. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 30.6.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.30.6.10) - [Next: 30.6.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.30.6.12) - [Up: 30.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.30.6) ## Translations (2) - [Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-keith.30.p13) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.30.6.11) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.30.6.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.30.6.11) · Pramāṇa