Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 4.10
Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 4.10
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4.10.1
atha ya prathajam gām dadāti /
Now, that he gives a first-born cow [as sacrificial fee],
4.10.2
pathama karma hy etat /
for this is a first action.
4.10.3
yady etasyai glāyāt / (Vikṛti iṣṭayah)
If he should feel weary of this [iṣṭi],
4.10.4
paurṇamāsam vā amāvāsyam vā haviṣ kurvīta navānām ubhayasya āptyai / (Vikṛti iṣṭayah)
he should make the oblation of the Full Moon or of the New Moon [sacrifice] from the new [grains], for the attainment of both.
4.10.5
api vā paurṇamāse vā amāvāsye vā havīṃṣy anuvartayed devatānām aparihāṇāya / (Vikṛti iṣṭayah)
Or he should add the oblations to the Full Moon or to the New Moon [sacrifice], so that the deities are not neglected.
4.10.6
api vā yavāg vā eva sāyam prātar agnihotram juhuyān navānām ubhayasya āptyai / (Vikṛti iṣṭayah)
Or he should offer the Agnihotra evening and morning with gruel made of the new [grains], for the attainment of both.
4.10.7
api vā sthālī pākam eva gārhapatye śrapayitvā navānām etābhya āgrayaṇa devatābhya āhavanīye juhuyāt sviṣṭakṛc caturthībhyo amuṣyai svāhā amuṣyai svāhā iti devatānām aparihāṇāya / (Vikṛti iṣṭayah)
Or having cooked a dish of rice on the Gārhapatya fire from the new [grains], he should offer it on the Āhavanīya fire to these deities of the Āgrayaṇa, with [Agni] Sviṣṭakṛt as fourth, [saying,] 'To that [deity] svāhā, to that [deity] svāhā', so that the deities are not neglected.
4.10.8
api vā agnihotrīm eva navān ādayitvā tasyai dugdhena sāyam prātar agnihotram juhuyād ubhayasya āptyai / (Vikṛti iṣṭayah)
Or having fed the Agnihotra cow with the new [grains], he should offer the Agnihotra evening and morning with her milk, for the attainment of both.
4.10.9
eta etāvantaḥ pātāḥ /
These are the alternative procedures, so many.
4.10.10
teṣām yena kāmayeta tena yajeta / (Vikṛti iṣṭayah)
With whichever among them he may desire, with that he should sacrifice.
4.10.11
trihavis tu sthitā /
The three-oblation [rite], however, is the standard.
4.10.12
trayo vā ime lokāḥ /
Three, truly, are these worlds.
4.10.13
imān eva tal lokān āpnoti imān eva tal lokān āpnoti / (Vikṛti iṣṭayah)
He thereby obtains these very worlds, he thereby obtains these very worlds.
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