Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 10.2
English (machine translation) 10.2
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These are the measures and concordances of the sacrificial post.
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Having attained one concordance among them, he should make the sacrificial post.
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As to this they also say: he should not measure the sacrificial post;
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it should just be unmeasured.
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By the measured, one wins the measured;
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by the unmeasured, the unmeasured,
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for the obtaining of the unmeasured.
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Wherever in his mind he deems the limit, that he should make.
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"That applies to both the sacrificial post and the altar," so he used to say.
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The mind is indeed Prajāpati;
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and Prajāpati is the sacrifice.
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Then the sacrifice itself enjoys the sacrifice,
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when mind [enjoys] mind.
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The post of the Vājapeya alone is fixed at seventeen cubits;
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it is fashioned with eight corners,
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for the attainment of all desires.
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Then they wash it clean.
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Just where it has been, as it were, wounded or chopped by the axe,
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there he makes it swell, there he heals it.
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Then they anoint it.
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Those waters which are the puruṣa,
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those he thereby bestows upon it.
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The sacrificer himself should make it well anointed;
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thus indeed the sacrificer becomes, as it were, unchafed.
Linked texts (1)
- Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa — Kauṣītaki, Sanskrit