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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) ### [8.11.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.2) gāyatro ayaṃl lokaḥ / > This world is connected with the Gāyatrī; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.3) tad imaṃl lokam āpnoti / (soma: upasadah) > thus he wins this world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.4) triṣṭubhau saumyau / > The two \[verses\] to Soma are in the Triṣṭubh \[metre\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.5) traiṣṭubho antarikṣa lokaḥ / > The intermediate world is connected with the Triṣṭubh; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.6) tad antarikṣa lokam āpnoti / (soma: upasadah) > thus he wins the intermediate world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.7) jagatyau vaiṣṇavyau / > The two \[verses\] to Viṣṇu are in the Jagatī \[metre\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.8) jāgato asau lokaḥ / > Yonder world is connected with the Jagatī; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.9) tad amuṃl lokam āpnoti / (soma: upasadah) > thus he wins yonder world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.10) tā vai viparyasyati / > Indeed, he reverses them. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.11) yāḥ pūrva ahṇe puronuvākyās tā apara ahṇe yājyāḥ karoti / (soma: upasadah) > Those that are the invitatory verses in the morning, he makes the offering verses in the afternoon; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.12) yā yājyās tāḥ puronuvākyāḥ / > those that are offering verses, \[he makes\] invitatory verses, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.13) ayāta yāmatāyai / > for freshness. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.14) vaṣaṭ kāreṇa ha vā ṛg yāta yāmā bhavati samāne ahan / (soma: upasadah) > For a verse becomes exhausted on the same day by the vaṣaṭ-call; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.15) ayāta yāmābhir me vaṣaṭkṛtam asad iti / > \[he reverses them\] so that "the vaṣaṭ-call will be made by me with \[verses\] that are not exhausted." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.16) yad v eva viparyasyati grīvāṇām sthemne / > Moreover, he reverses them for the firmness of the neck\[-joints\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.17) tasmādd ha āsām grīvāṇām vyatiṣaktāni iva parvāṇi bhavanti / (soma: upasadah) > Therefore, the joints of this neck are, as it were, interlocked. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.18) ājya haviṣo devatāḥ / > The deities have ghee as their oblation; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.19) payo vrato yajamānaḥ / > the sacrificer has milk as his vow-food. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.20) tat saloma / > That is harmonious. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.21) tāḥ parovarīyasīr abhyupeyāt trīn agre stanān atha dvāv atha ekam / (soma: upasadah) > He should approach them becoming progressively wider: first three teats, then two, then one. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.22) paraspara eva tal lokān varīyasaḥ kurute / > He thereby makes these worlds progressively wider. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.23) na abhyunnayeta / > He should not increase \[the number of teats\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.11.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11.24) svargam ha vā ete lokam abhiprayanti ya upasada upayanti / (soma: upasadah) > Those who undertake the Upasads set out towards the heavenly world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## 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 ## Linked texts (1) - [Ṛgvedabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.rgvedabrahmana.8.9) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.11) · Pramāṇa