[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) › 7.6 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 7.6 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 7.6 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.1) sa yatra adhvaryur audgrabhaṇāni juhoti / > When the adhvaryu offers the audgrabhaṇa offerings, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.2) tad upa yajamānaḥ pañca āhutīr juhuyāt / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > the sacrificer should offer five accompanying oblations: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.3) mano me manasā dīkṣatām svāhā iti prathamām / > 'May my mind be consecrated through the mind, svāhā'—as the first; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.4) vān me vācā dīkṣatām svāhā iti dvitīyām / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > 'May my speech be consecrated through speech, svāhā'—as the second; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.5) prāṇo me prāṇena dīkṣatām svāhā iti tṛtīyām / > 'May my breath be consecrated through the breath, svāhā'—as the third. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.6) madhye prāṇam āha / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > He places breath in the middle. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.7) madhye hy ayam prāṇaḥ / > for this breath is in the middle. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.8) cakṣur me cakṣuṣā dīkṣatām svāhā iti caturthīm / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > "May my sight be consecrated with sight, svāhā!" \[with this\] fourth \[offering\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.9) śrotram me śrotreṇa dīkṣatām svāhā iti pañcamīm / > "May my hearing be consecrated with hearing, svāhā!" \[with this\] fifth \[offering\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.10) tad u ha sma āha kauṣītakiḥ / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > Now, Kauṣītaki used to say: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.11) na hotavyāḥ / > "They should not be offered. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.12) atiriktā āhutayaḥ syur yadd hūyeran / > They would be superfluous offerings if they were offered. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.13) adhvaryum eva juhvatam anvārabhya pratīkair anumantrayet / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > Touching the adhvaryu as he offers, he should accompany \[the offerings\] with the formulas: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.14) mano me manasā dīkṣatām iti prathamām / > "May my mind be consecrated with mind," \[with this\] first \[formula\]; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.15) vān me vācā dīkṣatām iti dvitīyām / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > "May my speech be consecrated with speech," \[with this\] second \[formula\]; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.16) prāṇo me prāṇena dīkṣatām iti tṛtīyām / > "May my breath be consecrated with breath," \[with this\] third \[formula\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.17) madhye prāṇam āha / > He mentions breath in the middle, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.18) madhye hy ayam prāṇaḥ / > for this breath is in the middle. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.19) cakṣur me cakṣuṣā dīkṣatām iti caturthīm / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > "May my sight be consecrated with sight," \[with this\] fourth \[formula\]; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.20) śrotram me śrotreṇa dīkṣatām iti pañcamīm / > "May my hearing be consecrated with hearing," \[with this\] fifth \[formula\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.21) dīkṣayaty u ha eva etā yāḥ puruṣe devatāḥ / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > Thus indeed he consecrates these deities which are in man, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.22) no atiriktā āhutayo hūyanta iti / > and no superfluous offerings are offered." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.23) atha khalu śraddhā eva sakṛd iṣṭasya akṣitiḥ / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > Now indeed faith alone is the imperishableness of what is offered once. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.24) sa yaḥ śraddadhāno yajate / > He who sacrifices having faith, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.25) tasya iṣṭam na kṣīyate / > what he has offered does not perish. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.26) āpo akṣitiḥ / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > Water is imperishableness— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.27) yā imā eṣu lokeṣu yāś ca imā adhyātmam / > both that which is here in these worlds, and that which is within oneself. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.28) sa yo ammayy akṣitir iti vidvān yajate / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > He who sacrifices knowing, "Imperishableness consists of water," > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.29) tasya iṣṭam na kṣīyate / > what he has offered does not perish. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.30) etām u ha eva tat keśī dārbhyo hiraṇmayāya śakunāya sakṛd iṣṭasya akṣitim provāca / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > This very imperishableness of what is offered once Keśin Dārbhya declared to the golden bird. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.31) apara ahṇe dīkṣate / > He is consecrated in the afternoon. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.32) apara ahṇe ha vā eṣa sarvāṇi bhūtāni saṃvṛṅkte / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > In the afternoon, indeed, this one absorbs all beings; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.33) api ha vā enam rajanā atiyanti / > even the colorings pass over him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.34) tasmāl lohitāyānn iva astaṃvā iti / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > Therefore, reddening as it were, he sets. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.35) etaṃvā iva ātmānam dīkṣamāṇo abhidīkṣate / > Being consecrated, he is consecrated towards this very self, as it were. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.36) tad yad apara ahṇe dīkṣate / > As to why he is consecrated in the afternoon, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [7.6.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6.37) sarveṣām eva kāmānām āptyai / (soma: dīkṣaṇīyeṣṭi) > it is to obtain all desires. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.7.6.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.7.6) · Pramāṇa