Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 10.8
English (machine translation) 10.8
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10.8.1
Having concluded, he mutters in a whisper: "Both Apāpa and […]."
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Apāpa indeed is the slaughterer of the gods.
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To him indeed he thereby delivers it.
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For he knows the gods.
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Then he recites the drops-verses.
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With these he makes the drops sweet for Agni.
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These indeed are their invitatory verses, these the offering verses.
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Therefore they are appropriate.
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Having performed [the offerings] with the svāhā-calls, they perform [the offering] with the omentum.
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Thereby they make the fore-offerings share in the animal.
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One should not emit speech between the svāhā-calls and the omentum.
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The vital breaths indeed are the svāhā-calls;
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the body is the omentum.
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[He does so] lest he place anything between the vital breaths and the body.
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Now, as to why the invitatory verses of the animal for Agni and Soma are in Anuṣṭubh:
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Gāyatrī indeed is that which is Anuṣṭubh;
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Gāyatrī is the metre of Agni.
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Now, as to why the offering verses are in Triṣṭubh:
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this metre of nobility is the Triṣṭubh;
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nobility is Soma.
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Thus he propitiates the two deities according to their metres.
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Now indeed, when the animal is being slaughtered, the sacrificial cake is apportioned after [it].
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Now, wherever a sacrificial cake is apportioned,
10.8.26
there the cake-Sviṣṭakṛt is unalterable.
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Agni indeed is Sviṣṭakṛt.
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Therefore it is unalterable.
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The cake-Sviṣṭakṛt is unalterable [with] a verse of Viśvāmitra.
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Having recited an invitatory verse by Viśvāmitra, he offers with a verse by Viśvāmitra.
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The sacrificial cake is indeed the extension of the sacrifice.
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Viśvāmitra indeed is speech.
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By speech the sacrifice is extended.
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