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Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 18.5

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18.5.1

Then they proceed with the Hāriyojana cup.

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Thereby they please the two bay steeds.

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Here the gods together with their horses become pleased.

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Having recited a Triṣṭubh as the invitatory verse for the Hāriyojana cup, he sacrifices with a Jagatī.

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The Triṣṭubh is strength and heroic might;

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cattle are the Jagatī;

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thereby he ultimately establishes [him] in strength, in heroic might, and in cattle.

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The offering verse contains [the word] mad; for the third pressing contains [the word] mad.

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He utters the secondary vaṣaṭ-call for the appeasement of the oblations,

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[and] for the firm support of the oblations.

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He should take the largest portion of those parched grains.

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Parched grains are cattle.

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Thus he bestows an abundance of cattle upon himself.

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Now, when they murmur a verse, they thereby bring about well-being.

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They scatter them at the edge of the ash of the āhavanīya fire.

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The āhavanīya fire is the womb of cattle.

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Thus they place them in their own cowpen, not to wander away.

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Then they offer wood splinters.

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Just as a serpent sloughs off its old skin,

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or a stalk from the muñja reed,

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even so do they completely free themselves from all evil.

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Then, turning to the left, they go down to the waters with the somas.

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Here they set them down within the altar.

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For that is the abode of soma.

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They separate the tufts of darbha grass.

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When waters and plants come together,

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Then Soma is complete.

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They pour them down with a verse addressed to Viṣṇu.

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The sacrifice is indeed Viṣṇu.

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Thereby in the end they establish them in the sacrifice.

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