Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 1.4
English (machine translation) 1.4
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1.4.1
He offers the fore-offerings and after-offerings with case-forms.
1.4.2
The fore-offerings and after-offerings are the seasons.
1.4.3
Thereby they gather him together from the seasons.
1.4.4
“Agni, come to the feast,” “We choose Agni as messenger,” “Agni is kindled by Agni,” “May Agni slay the foes,” “We think on the praise of Agni,” “To Agni, who, a mortal, worships”—the opening phrases of these verses are the case-forms.
1.4.5
They are six.
1.4.6
Six indeed are the seasons.
1.4.7
Thereby he gathers him together again from the seasons.
1.4.8
He offers the final fore-offering and after-offering according to their proper order.
1.4.9
Thus there is no departure for him from the fore-offerings and after-offerings.
1.4.10
The prior butter portion is Vṛtra-slaying, for the destruction of evil.
1.4.11
Moreover, there is no departure for him from the paradigm of the full moon sacrifice.
1.4.12
“He should make the first [butter portion] for Agni the wise, [with the verse] ‘Awake Agni with praise’,” say some.
1.4.13
For the fire of him who takes down his fires as it were sleeps;
1.4.14
[they say] that thereby he awakens him again.
1.4.15
The Vṛtra-slaying [verse], however, is the settled rule.
1.4.16
“O Agni, thou art purified with life,” is the invitatory verse of the second [butter portion].
1.4.17
“Thou art purified” is the Soma-like form.
1.4.18
For this sacrificial rite belongs to Agni alone.
1.4.19
Because he mentions Pavamāna,
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thus there is no departure for him from the butter portion belonging to Soma.
Translations (1)
- Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English
Linked texts (1)
- Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa — Kauṣītaki, Sanskrit