[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) › 4.10 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 4.10 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 4.10 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.10.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.4.10.1) atha ya prathajam gām dadāti / > Now, that he gives a first-born cow \[as sacrificial fee\], > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.10.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.4.10.2) pathama karma hy etat / > for this is a first action. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.10.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.4.10.3) yady etasyai glāyāt / (Vikṛti iṣṭayah) > If he should feel weary of this \[iṣṭi\], > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.10.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.10.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.10.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.10.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.10.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.10.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.4.10.9) eta etāvantaḥ pātāḥ / > These are the alternative procedures, so many. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.10.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.4.10.10) teṣām yena kāmayeta tena yajeta / (Vikṛti iṣṭayah) > With whichever among them he may desire, with that he should sacrifice. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.10.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.4.10.11) trihavis tu sthitā / > The three-oblation \[rite\], however, is the standard. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.10.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.4.10.12) trayo vā ime lokāḥ / > Three, truly, are these worlds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [4.10.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.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. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.4.10.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Śāṅkhāyanaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.sankhayana.3.12.17) — Śāṅkhāyana, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.4.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.4.10) · Pramāṇa