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Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 21.1

English (machine translation) 21.1

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21.1.1

The gods, desiring to strike away death, evil, and desiring to attain fellowship and union with Brahman, saw this Abhiplava six-day rite.

21.1.2

Having navigated [it] with this Abhiplava, and having struck away death, evil, they attained fellowship and union with Brahman.

21.1.3

In the same way, the sacrificers, having navigated [it] with this very Abhiplava, and having struck away death, evil, attain fellowship and union with Brahman.

21.1.4

Having navigated with this prior three-day period, on the fourth day, with the Go [day], they strove for going indeed.

21.1.5

They undertook the Āyus, the fifth day, for the attainment of a full life-span.

21.1.6

The Jyotis, the sixth day, they would cast around again beyond, so as not to fall into death, evil.

21.1.7

They undertake the Go, the fourth day.

21.1.8

Its forms of metres are the very same as those of the fourth day.

21.1.9

‘The hotṛ is born, conscious’ is the Ājya recitation, containing [a form of the root] ‘jan-’.

21.1.10

Containing [a form of the root] ‘jan-’ is indeed the form of the fourth day.

21.1.11

The Prauga [recitation] is by Medhātithi.

21.1.12

When the Bṛhat Sāman was being created, the Prauga [recitation] of Medhātithi was created after it.

21.1.13

Thereby he makes the rite successful by its proper form.

21.1.14

For that rite indeed prospers which is complete in its proper form.

21.1.15

‘Be born, fierce one, for strength, for haste’ is the Marutvatīya recitation, containing [a form of the root] ‘jan-’.

21.1.16

Containing [a form of the root] ‘jan-’ is indeed the form of the fourth day.

21.1.17

‘Fierce was he born for valor, independent’ is the Niṣkevalya recitation, containing [a form of the root] ‘jan-’.

21.1.18

Containing [a form of the root] ‘jan-’ is indeed the form of the fourth day.

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