Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 12.6

English (machine translation) 12.6

[The question is raised:] 'Should one rise up after the pavamāna [laud], or not?'

'One should not rise up after it,' they say.

This is the resting place of the ṛc, where the hotṛ sits.

Now, that [place] yonder is of the sāman, where those [chanters] sing the sāman.

He who rises up after it,

he displaces the ṛc from its own resting place.

He makes the ṛc a follower of the sāman.

Therefore he should not rise up after it,

[thinking:] 'Lest I displace the ṛc from its own resting place;'

'Lest I make the ṛc a follower of the sāman.'

If, however, he should be [acting as] the hotṛ himself,

he should rise up after it;

for he has the duty of joining in the singing.

The heavenly world is the tone, the sāman.

[He rises thinking:] 'May I project myself into the heavenly world, into the tone, the sāman.'

Now indeed, in the pavamāna [laud] in the morning all the deities are satiated.

[The question is:] 'How does he not remain excluded from consuming [the Soma] there?'

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