Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 13.3
English (machine translation) 13.3
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13.3.1
With 'Enjoy the oblation, O Agni,' he sacrifices for the Sviṣṭakṛt offering of the sacrificial cake at each pressing.
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Avatsāra Prāśravaṇa was the hotṛ of the gods.
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Death lay in ambush against him at this splendour.
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Death is indeed Agni.
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Having pleased Agni with the oblation, saying, 'Enjoy the oblation, O Agni,' he then escaped.
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In the very same way, the hotṛ who knows thus, having pleased Agni with the oblation, saying, 'Enjoy the oblation, O Agni,' then escapes.
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By these intermediate spaces the gods went to the heavenly world.
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Death lay in ambush against them at this splendour.
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Death is indeed Agni.
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Having pleased Agni with the oblation, saying, 'Enjoy the oblation, O Agni,' they then escaped.
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In the very same way, the hotṛ who knows thus, having pleased Agni with the oblation, saying, 'Enjoy the oblation, O Agni,' then escapes.
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These six syllables indeed are: 'havir agne vīhi' ('Enjoy the oblation, O Agni').
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This self has six parts and is sixfold.
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Having thus redeemed the self by the self, becoming free from debt, he then sacrifices.
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That is this mantra of Avatsāra Prāśravaṇa.
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He should not think: 'With what now, with what indeed do I sacrifice?'
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'I sacrifice with a mantra composed by a seer, with a verse'—thus indeed should he know.
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Now, we have said that Soma is the animal,
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and so too the sacrificial cakes.
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