Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 21.4

English (machine translation) 21.4

They approach the sixth day, [which is] light.

Its meter-forms are the very ones that belong to the sixth day.

"Friends, together your united [speech]" is the Ājya recitation.

"Friends" has all characteristics.

Possessing all characteristics indeed is the sixth day.

Therefore, [with] "friends", it addresses all indeed.

The Prauga recitation is the Saṃhārya.

When the Bṛhat sāman was being created, the Saṃhārya Prauga was created after it.

Thereby he makes the ritual successful through its characteristic.

That ritual indeed is prosperous which is rich in its proper characteristic.

"Great is Indra, manly, filling the peoples" is the Marutvatīya recitation.

"Wide, broad, well-made by the makers has he become" is a dancing-phrase.

The end is the sixth day.

Having gone to the end, as it were, one dances.

Whither indeed would one go from there?

"He who, as soon as born, the first, thoughtful" is the Niṣkevalya recitation.

Its characteristic of the end is just that which narrates what was in the past: "He who placed the Dāsa color down in hiding".

in that this is as it were [in the] past.

It has an udarka refrain; that is the second end-form.

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