Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 10.10
English (machine translation) 10.10
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10.10.1
Therefore he is unmovable.
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And he indeed is the recipient of milk.
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Here Agni becomes a sharer in all oblations.
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On this they say: 'Since the gods share the abode (dhāman), why then is Vanaspati a sharer of the place (pāthas)?'
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The gods indeed took the abode of the sacrifice;
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the fathers took the place.
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The animal [victim] has the fathers as deities, as it were.
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Milk has the fathers as deities.
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'Therefore [it is so],' he should say.
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On this they say: 'Why do they offer the two election offerings only in the Soma sacrifice, and not in the oblation sacrifice?'
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Incomplete indeed is that worship of the gods which is the oblation sacrifice.
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Now, complete is this worship of the gods which is the Soma sacrifice.
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Therefore they offer the two election offerings only in the Soma sacrifice, and not in the oblation sacrifice.
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'May I be pleasing to Speech; pleasing to the Lord of Speech, divine Speech!
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What is sweetest of your speech, in that place us today! Svāhā to Sarasvatī!' — with this he offers with the svāhā-call at the beginning.
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He thereby releases speech.
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Therefore, speech, released from this point onward, conveys the sacrifice.
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[He offers] the second [offering] with the mind.
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For pleased by the mind is the mind, pleased by the mind.
Linked texts (1)
- Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa — Kauṣītaki, Sanskrit