Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 14.6
English (machine translation) 14.6
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He recites the Prauga recitation in Gāyatrī metre;
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by it the morning pressing is obtained.
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He recites [verses] to Indra;
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by that the midday pressing is obtained.
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He recites [verses] to the All-Gods;
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by that the third pressing is obtained.
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Then he recites the puroruc to the All-Gods.
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It has six feet.
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they call it the seasons.
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for the seasons are six.
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He recites separating every two pādas of it.
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Therefore the seasons, combined in pairs, are declared: summer, the rains, winter.
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Here, indeed, some recite a puroruc to Sarasvatī.
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He should not do so.
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That is superfluous.
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Speech is indeed bright.
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Speech itself is indeed the puroruc.
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'Come, O Vāyu, visible', [and] 'O Aśvins, sacrifice-bearing refreshments'—these both [form] that prauga recitation, consisting of nine verses and twelve verses.
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That [makes] twenty-one.
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The twenty-one-fold stoma is indeed the highest of the stomas.
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Thereby he attains the highest stoma.
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Moreover, as to why it is twenty-one:
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Twelve months, five seasons, [and] these three worlds;
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yonder sun is the twenty-first.
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By means of it he mounts the sacrificer into shared worldhood [with the sun].
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