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Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 19.5

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19.5.1

The twenty-fourth [day] is the mouth of the year.

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Therefore it is an Agniṣṭoma;

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for the Agniṣṭoma is the mouth of sacrifices.

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They gratify the year right from the mouth.

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Some indeed make it an ukthya,

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for the completeness of the sacrifice.

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Its stoma is the twenty-fourfold [stoma].

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Twenty-four indeed are the half-months of the year;

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[it is] for the attainment of the year.

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It has three hundred and sixty stotriya verses.

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Three hundred and sixty indeed are the days of the year;

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thereby they obtain the days of the year.

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Its pṛṣṭha is the Bṛhat.

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This is the second of the days, and the Bṛhat is the second of the pṛṣṭhas;

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therefore its pṛṣṭha is the Bṛhat.

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Now, where they adopt the twenty-fourfold stoma,

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the Mahāvrata is firmly fixed there;

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and by its domain, the Bṛhat is the pṛṣṭha of the Mahāvrata;

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therefore the Bṛhat alone should be the pṛṣṭha of this day.

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Its metrical forms are addressed throughout each year.

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The ājya [śastra] is of eight verses, [beginning,] 'The hotṛ was born, the mindful one,' of the measure of the Gāyatrī.

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The stoma is indeed of the measure of the Gāyatrī.

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That recitation is successful which accords with the stoma.

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The prauga [śastra] is that composed by Madhuchandas; it is successful;

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after its model other praugas are arranged,

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[thinking,] 'May the rite performed by me in the beginning be successful.'

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'To thee the chariot, as for help' is the pratipad of the Marutvatīya [śastra];

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'This pressed food, O good one' is the anucara.

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This is the regular scheme of a one-day sacrifice; its Brāhmaṇa has been stated.

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