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His vow is ‘One should not look at him on his rising or on his setting.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.2) tam abravīt kathā mā abhyāyacchasi iti / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 6. A fifth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a fifth name, for with four names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the great god.’ Since the sun is the great god, thereby the great god harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not look at him on his rising or on his setting.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.3) pañcamam me nāma kurv ity abravīt / > vi. 6. A fifth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a fifth name, for with four names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the great god.’ Since the sun is the great god, thereby the great god harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not look at him on his rising or on his setting.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.4) na vā idam caturbhir nāmabhir annam atsyāmi iti / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 6. A fifth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a fifth name, for with four names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the great god.’ Since the sun is the great god, thereby the great god harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not look at him on his rising or on his setting.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.5) sa vai tvam ity abravīn mahān eva deva iti / > vi. 6. A fifth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a fifth name, for with four names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the great god.’ Since the sun is the great god, thereby the great god harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not look at him on his rising or on his setting.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.6) yan mahān deva ādityas tena / > vi. 6. A fifth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a fifth name, for with four names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the great god.’ Since the sun is the great god, thereby the great god harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not look at him on his rising or on his setting.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.7) na ha vā enam mahān devo hinasti / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 6. A fifth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a fifth name, for with four names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the great god.’ Since the sun is the great god, thereby the great god harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not look at him on his rising or on his setting.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.8) na asya prajām na asya paśūn na asya bruvāṇam cana / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 6. A fifth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a fifth name, for with four names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the great god.’ Since the sun is the great god, thereby the great god harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not look at him on his rising or on his setting.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.9) atha ya enam dveṣṭi / > vi. 6. A fifth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a fifth name, for with four names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the great god.’ Since the sun is the great god, thereby the great god harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not look at him on his rising or on his setting.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.10) sa eva pāpīyān bhavati / > vi. 6. A fifth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a fifth name, for with four names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the great god.’ Since the sun is the great god, thereby the great god harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not look at him on his rising or on his setting.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.11) na sa ya evam veda / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 6. A fifth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a fifth name, for with four names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the great god.’ Since the sun is the great god, thereby the great god harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not look at him on his rising or on his setting.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.12) tasya vratam udyantam eva enam na īkṣeta astam yantam ca iti / > vi. 6. A fifth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a fifth name, for with four names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the great god.’ Since the sun is the great god, thereby the great god harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not look at him on his rising or on his setting.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.13) tam ṣaṣṭham abhyāyacchat / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 7. A sixth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why doest thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a sixth name, for with five names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Rudra.’ Since the moon is Rudra, thereby Rudra harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘What is deformed one should not eat, nor the narrow.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.14) tam abravīt kathā mā abhyāyacchasi iti / > vi. 7. A sixth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why doest thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a sixth name, for with five names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Rudra.’ Since the moon is Rudra, thereby Rudra harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘What is deformed one should not eat, nor the narrow.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.15) ṣaṣṭham me nāma kurv ity abravīt / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 7. A sixth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why doest thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a sixth name, for with five names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Rudra.’ Since the moon is Rudra, thereby Rudra harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘What is deformed one should not eat, nor the narrow.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.16) na vā idam pañcabhir nāmabhir annam atsyāmi iti / > vi. 7. A sixth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why doest thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a sixth name, for with five names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Rudra.’ Since the moon is Rudra, thereby Rudra harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘What is deformed one should not eat, nor the narrow.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.17) sa vai tvam ity abravīd rudra eva iti / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 7. A sixth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why doest thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a sixth name, for with five names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Rudra.’ Since the moon is Rudra, thereby Rudra harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘What is deformed one should not eat, nor the narrow.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.18) yad rudraś candramās tena / > vi. 7. A sixth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why doest thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a sixth name, for with five names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Rudra.’ Since the moon is Rudra, thereby Rudra harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘What is deformed one should not eat, nor the narrow.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.19) na ha vā enam rudro hinasti / > vi. 7. A sixth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why doest thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a sixth name, for with five names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Rudra.’ Since the moon is Rudra, thereby Rudra harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘What is deformed one should not eat, nor the narrow.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.20) na asya prajām na asya paśūn na asya bruvāṇam cana / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 7. A sixth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why doest thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a sixth name, for with five names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Rudra.’ Since the moon is Rudra, thereby Rudra harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘What is deformed one should not eat, nor the narrow.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.21) atha ya enam dveṣṭi / > vi. 7. A sixth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why doest thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a sixth name, for with five names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Rudra.’ Since the moon is Rudra, thereby Rudra harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘What is deformed one should not eat, nor the narrow.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.22) sa eva pāpīyān bhavati / > vi. 7. A sixth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why doest thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a sixth name, for with five names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Rudra.’ Since the moon is Rudra, thereby Rudra harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘What is deformed one should not eat, nor the narrow.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.23) na sa ya evam veda / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 7. A sixth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why doest thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a sixth name, for with five names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Rudra.’ Since the moon is Rudra, thereby Rudra harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘What is deformed one should not eat, nor the narrow.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.24) tasya vratam vimūrtam eva na aśnīyān majjānam ca iti / > vi. 7. A sixth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why doest thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a sixth name, for with five names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Rudra.’ Since the moon is Rudra, thereby Rudra harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘What is deformed one should not eat, nor the narrow.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.25) tam saptamam abhyāyacchat / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 8. A seventh time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a seventh name, for with six names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Īçāna.’ Since food is Īçāna, thereby Īçāna harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not repulse one who desires food only.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.26) tam abravīt kathā mā abhyāyacchasi iti / > vi. 8. A seventh time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a seventh name, for with six names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Īçāna.’ Since food is Īçāna, thereby Īçāna harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not repulse one who desires food only.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.27) saptamam me nāma kurv ity abravīt / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 8. A seventh time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a seventh name, for with six names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Īçāna.’ Since food is Īçāna, thereby Īçāna harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not repulse one who desires food only.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.28) na vā idam ṣaḍbhir nāmabhir annam atsyāmi iti / > vi. 8. A seventh time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a seventh name, for with six names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Īçāna.’ Since food is Īçāna, thereby Īçāna harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not repulse one who desires food only.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.29) sa vai tvam ity abravīd īśāna eva iti / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 8. A seventh time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a seventh name, for with six names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Īçāna.’ Since food is Īçāna, thereby Īçāna harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not repulse one who desires food only.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.30) yad īśāno annam tena / > vi. 8. A seventh time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a seventh name, for with six names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Īçāna.’ Since food is Īçāna, thereby Īçāna harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not repulse one who desires food only.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.31) na ha vā enam īśāno hinasti / > vi. 8. A seventh time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a seventh name, for with six names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Īçāna.’ Since food is Īçāna, thereby Īçāna harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not repulse one who desires food only.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.32) na asya prajām na asya paśūn na asya bruvāṇam cana / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 8. A seventh time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a seventh name, for with six names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Īçāna.’ Since food is Īçāna, thereby Īçāna harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not repulse one who desires food only.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.33) atha ya enam dveṣṭi / > vi. 8. A seventh time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a seventh name, for with six names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Īçāna.’ Since food is Īçāna, thereby Īçāna harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not repulse one who desires food only.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.34) sa eva pāpīyān bhavati / > vi. 8. A seventh time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a seventh name, for with six names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Īçāna.’ Since food is Īçāna, thereby Īçāna harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not repulse one who desires food only.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.35) na sa ya evam veda / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 8. A seventh time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a seventh name, for with six names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Īçāna.’ Since food is Īçāna, thereby Īçāna harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not repulse one who desires food only.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.36) tasya vratam annam eva icchamānam na pratyācakṣīta iti / > vi. 8. A seventh time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me a seventh name, for with six names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art Īçāna.’ Since food is Īçāna, thereby Īçāna harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘One should not repulse one who desires food only.’ > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.37) tam aṣṭamam abhyāyacchati / > vi. 9. An eighth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me an eighth name, for with seven names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the thunderbolt.’ Since Indra is the thunderbolt, thereby the thunderbolt harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.38) tam abravīt kathā mā abhyāyacchasi iti / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 9. An eighth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me an eighth name, for with seven names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the thunderbolt.’ Since Indra is the thunderbolt, thereby the thunderbolt harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.39) aṣṭamam me nāma kurv ity abravīt / > vi. 9. An eighth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me an eighth name, for with seven names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the thunderbolt.’ Since Indra is the thunderbolt, thereby the thunderbolt harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.40) na vā idam saptābhir nāmabhir annam atsyāmi iti / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 9. An eighth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me an eighth name, for with seven names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the thunderbolt.’ Since Indra is the thunderbolt, thereby the thunderbolt harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.41) sa vai tvam ity abravīd aśanir eva iti / > vi. 9. An eighth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me an eighth name, for with seven names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the thunderbolt.’ Since Indra is the thunderbolt, thereby the thunderbolt harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.42) yad aśanir indras tena / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 9. An eighth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me an eighth name, for with seven names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the thunderbolt.’ Since Indra is the thunderbolt, thereby the thunderbolt harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.43) na ha vā enam aśanir hinasti / > vi. 9. An eighth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me an eighth name, for with seven names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the thunderbolt.’ Since Indra is the thunderbolt, thereby the thunderbolt harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.44) na asya prajām na asya paśūn na asya bruvāṇam cana / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > vi. 9. An eighth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me an eighth name, for with seven names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the thunderbolt.’ Since Indra is the thunderbolt, thereby the thunderbolt harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.45) atha ya enam dveṣṭi / > vi. 9. An eighth time he grasped him; he said to him, ‘Why dost thou grasp me?’ He replied, ‘Give me an eighth name, for with seven names only I shall not eat food here.’ He answered, ‘Thou art the thunderbolt.’ Since Indra is the thunderbolt, thereby the thunderbolt harms him not, nor his offspring, nor his cattle, nor any one claiming to be his. He who hates > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.46) sa eva pāpīyān bhavati / > him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘Let him speak truth only, and let him bear gold.’ This is the great god of eight names, distributed eightfold; up to the eighth generation his offspring eats food; ever more brilliant is a son born in the offspring of him who knows thus. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.47) na sa ya evam veda / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘Let him speak truth only, and let him bear gold.’ This is the great god of eight names, distributed eightfold; up to the eighth generation his offspring eats food; ever more brilliant is a son born in the offspring of him who knows thus. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.48) tasya vratam satyam eva vadedd hiraṇyam ca bibhṛyād iti / > him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘Let him speak truth only, and let him bear gold.’ This is the great god of eight names, distributed eightfold; up to the eighth generation his offspring eats food; ever more brilliant is a son born in the offspring of him who knows thus. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.49) sa eṣo aṣṭa nāmā / > him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘Let him speak truth only, and let him bear gold.’ This is the great god of eight names, distributed eightfold; up to the eighth generation his offspring eats food; ever more brilliant is a son born in the offspring of him who knows thus. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.50) aṣṭadhā vihito mahān devaḥ / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘Let him speak truth only, and let him bear gold.’ This is the great god of eight names, distributed eightfold; up to the eighth generation his offspring eats food; ever more brilliant is a son born in the offspring of him who knows thus. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.51) ā ha vā asya aṣṭamāt puruṣāt prajā annam atti / > him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘Let him speak truth only, and let him bear gold.’ This is the great god of eight names, distributed eightfold; up to the eighth generation his offspring eats food; ever more brilliant is a son born in the offspring of him who knows thus. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ### [6.3.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3.52) vasīyān vasīyān ha eva asya prajāyām ājāyate ya evam veda / (Zūlagava: brahmatva) > him becomes worse, not he who knows thus. His vow is ‘Let him speak truth only, and let him bear gold.’ This is the great god of eight names, distributed eightfold; up to the eighth generation his offspring eats food; ever more brilliant is a son born in the offspring of him who knows thus. > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) ## Translations (2) - [Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-keith.6.p8) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.6.3.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.6.3) · Pramāṇa