Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 18.7
English (machine translation) 18.7
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18.7.1
Therefore they offer a sacrificial cake on one potsherd to Varuṇa.
18.7.2
Prosperity is indeed concentrated in one.
18.7.3
Varuṇa is indeed prosperity.
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They thereby firmly establish [themselves] in prosperity at the end.
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They go out between the pit and the rubbish heap.
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For that is the ford of the sacrifice called āpnāna.
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This is expressed in a verse:
18.7.8
'What will he proclaim here at the ford āpnāna?'
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By this ford the gods entered upon the sacrifice and attained all desires.
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In the very same way the sacrificer enters upon the sacrifice by this ford;
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he attains all desires.
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They proceed turning towards that quarter in which the water is.
18.7.13
The eastern quarter is indeed that in which the deities are.
18.7.14
He offers four fore-offerings, omitting that of the barhis.
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He leaves out the one with the barhis.
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For here the barhis is not strewed.
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There are two Vṛtra-slaying butter portions, to strike down evil.
18.7.18
Moreover, he has not departed from the ritual paradigm of the full moon day.
18.7.19
Some indeed make them containing [the word] 'water'.
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However, the two Vṛtra-slaying ones are established.
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Now as to his sacrificing to Varuṇa in the waters:
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he pleases him in his own abode.
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Now as to his sacrificing to Agni and Varuṇa:
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here Agni becomes a sharer in all the oblations.
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He offers two after-offerings, omitting that of the barhis.
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He leaves out the one with the barhis.
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Offspring is indeed the barhis:
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[he thinks,] 'Lest I throw offspring into the waters.'
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