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# Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 8.12

Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa 8.12

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [8.12.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.1)

dvādaśo ha vā antar uṣyāt svargo lokaḥ /

> The heavenly world is, indeed, twelve days away from one who dwells within \[the realm of men\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.12.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.2)

sa yaḥ sakṛd abhyunnayate / (soma: upasadah)

> He who increases \[by one teat\] once,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.12.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.3)

yathā eka rātram sārthān proṣitān anupreyād evam tat /

> that is just as if one were to follow after a caravan that has departed for one night;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [8.12.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.4)

yo dvitīyam / (soma: upasadah)

> he who \[increases\] a second time,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.5)

yathā dvi rātram evam tat /

> that is just as \[if it had departed for\] two nights;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.6)

hīyate tṛtīyena /

> with a third, he is left behind;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.7)

svargāṃl lokān na anvaśnute /

> he does not attain the heavenly worlds.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.8)

apy anugacched iti ha sma āha paiṅgyaḥ / (soma: upasadah)

> "He might even follow after," Paiṅgya used to say,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.9)

na tv eva abhyunnayeta /

> "yet he should not increase \[the teats\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.10)

yatra eva kāmayeta /

> Wherever he might desire,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.11)

tat pūrvo gatvā svargasya eva lokasya avasyed iti / (soma: upasadah)

> having gone thither first, he should settle in the heavenly world."  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.12)

samāptiḥ śreyasī iti ha sma āha kaṣītakiḥ /

> "Completion is better," Kauṣītaki used to say.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.13)

saṃrājo bhakṣo asmai dadhy ānayeyur na vrate / (soma: upasadah)

> They should bring curd for him as the portion of the sovereign, not for the vow-drink.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.14)

somo vai dadhi /

> Curd is Soma.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.15)

anantarhitau ha asya bhakṣo bhavati samāpnoti / (soma: upasadah)

> His portion becomes uninterrupted; he attains \[everything\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.16)

uta yadi saṃkrīṇīyuḥ /

> And if they buy together \[i.e., condense the days\],  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.17)

yā madhyama upasat /

> whichever is the middle Upasad,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.18)

tayā dvyaham anyatare careyuḥ / (soma: upasadah)

> with that, either of the two \[parties\] should perform for two days.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.19)

āvapanam hi sā /

> For it is an insertion,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.20)

idam antarikṣa loka āyatanena /

> by virtue of the abode of this intermediate world.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25)

### [8.12.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.8.12.21)

atha asamaram abhyudaity atha asamaram abhyudaiti / (soma: upasadah)

> Then he ascends without conflict; then he ascends without conflict.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

> night before. If he takes out twice, it is as if the time were two nights; through a third (taking) he loses the world of heaven, he cannot attain it. ‘He may however follow,’ used to say Paiṅgya. ‘But he should not take out; wherever he wishes, there first should he go in the world of heaven and stop: such a completion is better,’ used Kauṣītaki to say. In the case of (need of) eating his compeers may bring curds for him, but not in the time of the fast food; curds is Soma; his food becomes unobstructed; he obtains it. If they purchase (the Soma) together, the others should proceed for two days with the middle Upasad, for it is an insertion, being in position the world of the atmosphere: so without conflict he proceeds.  
> — 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.8.p20) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki~en-mt.8.12.1) — English, machine translation

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