Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 15.6
English (machine translation) 15.6
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He should recite the concluding verse in a lower tone.
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Thus the wife does not fall away [from him].
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[She becomes] more compliant.
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Thus the wife becomes, as it were, not arrogant in mind.
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The stotriya verse is the self; the anurūpa verse is the offspring.
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The dhāyyā verse is the chief wife; the pragātha is the cattle.
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The hymn is the self; that which is inside the self is the nivid.
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The concluding verse is the firm support; the offering verse is food.
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While the Pavamāna [stotra] was being chanted, death lay in ambush for the hotṛ.
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He put it down with the Ājya [recitation], other than from the stotriya [verses].
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It lay in ambush for him at the first sāman, at the Ājya.
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He put it down with the Prauga [recitation], other than from the stotriya [verses].
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It lies in ambush for him at the midday Pavamāna.
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He put it down with the Marutvatīya [recitation], other than from the stotriya [verses].
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Then indeed he begins the Niṣkevalya [recitation] with the stotriya [verses] themselves.
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Just as one who has escaped death in a safe place, just so having completely escaped.
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Regarding this they say: 'This Niṣkevalya [here] is indeed the Niṣkevalya yonder at the Mahāvrata. Yonder the caturuttara [metres] are recited; how are they obtained here?'
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They are indeed even more fully obtained here.
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When the stotriya and anurūpa [verses] are recited, they amount to seven caturuttaras,
15.6.20
and a four-syllable pāda is left over.
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When the stotriya and anurūpa [verses] are recited, they amount to seven caturuttaras,
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and a four-syllable pāda is left over.
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They are cattle.
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Those cattle he places in the sacrificer.
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The Agniṣṭoma is Virāj.
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There are one hundred and ninety stotriya verses.
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Directly indeed he attains the form of the Agniṣṭoma when he sacrifices with a Virāj [verse].
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Leaving aside the pāda, 'Drink the soma, Indra, let it exhilarate you...' [RV 6.17.11a], he pauses at the half-verse of the Virāj.
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Virāj is prosperity and proper food.
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Thereby he establishes [the sacrificer] in prosperity, in the Virāj, in proper food.
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With the subsequent half-verse of the Virāj he utters the vaṣaṭ-call.
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Thereby he places the sacrificer in the heavenly world.
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He utters the secondary vaṣaṭ-call for the pacification of the oblations,
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for the firm establishment of the oblations, for the firm establishment of the oblations.
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