[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) › 8.11.1 # Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 8.11.1 Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 8.11.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [8.11.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.1) gāyatryāv āgneyyau / > viii. 9. The two verses for Agni are Gāyatrī verses; this world is connected with the Gāyatrī; thus he obtains this world. Those for Soma are Triṣṭubh verses; the world of the atmosphere is connected with the Triṣṭubh; thus he obtains the world of the atmosphere. Those for Viṣṇu are Jagatī verses; yonder world is connected with the Jagatī; thus he obtains yonder world. These he inverts; those which in the forenoon were invitatory verses he makes offering verses in the afternoon; those which were offering verses he makes invitatory verses, to avoid exhaustion, (thinking) ‘The Ṛc becomes exhausted through the vaṣaṭ call; let me perform the vaṣaṭ call with (verses) unexhausted on the same day’. In that he inverts also, (it is) for the strength of the neck; therefore the joints of the neck are as it were intertwined. The gods have butter as their oblation, the sacrificer has milk as his fast food; that is in accord. He should treat them as broader above; on the first day (he should milk) three teats, then two, then one; verily thus he makes the worlds mutually broader. He should not take out; they advance to the world of heaven who undertake the Upasads; the world of heaven is twelve journeys away; he who takes out once, it is with him as if one should follow after those with one object sent on a single > — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) - [Previous: 8.10.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.10.18) - [Next: 8.11.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.2) - [Up: 8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11) ## Translations (2) - [Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-keith.8.p19) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.8.11.1) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.1) · Pramāṇa