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Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 13.7

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13.7.1

The season-offerings are indeed the vital breaths.

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In that they perform the season-offerings,

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they thereby place the vital breaths in the sacrificer.

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This vital breath is threefold: out-breath, in-breath, and diffused breath.

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Six [times] they sacrifice with [the formula]: "With the season";

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thereby they place the out-breath in the sacrificer.

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Four [times] they sacrifice with [the formula]: "With the seasons";

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thereby they place the in-breath in the sacrificer.

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Twice with [the formula]: "With the season," at the end;

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thereby he places the diffused breath in the sacrificer.

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Thus the sacrificer, having attained a full lifespan in this world, gains immortality [and] imperishability in the heavenly world.

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These season-offerings are indeed the vital breaths.

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Therefore they sacrifice without drawing breath, for the continuity of the vital breaths.

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For continuous, as it were, are these vital breaths.

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They do not utter a secondary vaṣaṭ-call.

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The seasonal offerings are indeed the vital breaths.

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The secondary vaṣaṭ-call is the conclusion [of the rite].

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[They think:] 'Let us not bring the vital breaths to an end before their proper time.'

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For connected, as it were, are these vital breaths.

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Concerning this they ask: 'Why does he issue the ritual call to all of them with "May the hotṛ sacrifice, may the hotṛ sacrifice"?'

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Speech indeed is the hotṛ.

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In saying that, he means: 'May speech sacrifice, may speech sacrifice.'

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Moreover, all these are the seven hotṛs.

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It is also declared by a verse:

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'The seven hotṛs sacrifice season by season.'

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Now, that he assigns [the call] twice afterwards is to prevent monotony.

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They are indeed twelve.

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Twelve months indeed make up the year.

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[This is] for the attainment of the year.

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Now, if someone should partake [of the offering] here,

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and someone should say of him on that occasion:

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'Unappeased is the portion [eaten], having no secondary vaṣaṭ-call uttered over it;

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he has departed from his vital breaths; he will not live'—it would surely happen thus.

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And if someone should not partake,

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and someone should say of him on that occasion:

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'The portion is the vital breath;

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he has separated himself from the vital breath; he will not live'—it would surely happen thus.

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He should just smear [his lips] as it were, or just smell [it], both here and at the [draughts] for two deities.

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Such is the instruction they declare in this matter.

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Now, regarding the fact that those two cross over [each other's paths],

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the two adhvaryus do not follow into each other['s footsteps].

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Therefore season does not follow into season, season does not follow into season.

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