Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 23.1
English (machine translation) 23.1
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The third day is an end.
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Having reached the end, those gods sought the fourth day.
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Therefore it contains [the verbal root] 'to seek' (iṣ-).
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Having sought it, they found it.
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Therefore it contains [the verbal root] 'to find' (vid-).
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Concerning this they say: 'Since the third day is the end, why then does he introduce the nyūṅkha on the fourth day?'
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That which is the fourth day is the abode of speech, of the Virāj.
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Food is the Virāj; food is speech.
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It is that very [speech] which he thus elaborates on the fourth day.
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Just as one would bend heated metal, so is that.
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It is for the manifold development of speech.
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These are its metric marks:
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containing saṃrāj, containing virāj, containing svarāj, containing jāta, containing ūti, containing vīti, containing pari, containing abhi, containing upa.
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"Agni with our own praises..." [RV 10.21.1] is the Vaimada Ājya recitation.
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By means of Vimada, indeed, the gods intoxicated and drove away the Asuras.
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So when [the hymn of] Vimada is recited on the fourth day, both in the middle and in the Hotrā recitations,
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the sacrificers thereby indeed drive away evil from limb after limb.
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"Agni produced by Atharvan..." [RV 10.21.5] contains [the word] 'born' (jātavat).
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That is the characteristic mark of this day.
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When fully recited, they amount to ten Jagatīs.
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For this three-day period has the Jagatī at the morning pressing.
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[Or] twenty Gāyatrīs.
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The Gāyatrī bears the morning pressing.
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And thus it does not depart from the characteristic form of the morning pressing.
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This is the case in the shifted [order of metres] (vyūḍha).
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Having set that aside, "Men [rubbed] Agni with their fingers in the two kindling sticks..." [RV 7.1.1] is the Vairāja Ājya recitation in the unshifted [order] (samūḍha).
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The Pṛṣṭha is Vairāja; therefore it accords with it.
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It is the Vāsiṣṭha Ājya recitation.
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The Pṛṣṭha is Vāsiṣṭha; therefore it accords with it.
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"Moving their hands, they generated the praised one..." [RV 7.1.1] contains [the word] 'born' (jātavat).
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That is the characteristic mark of this day.
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The Prauga recitation is in the Anuṣṭubh metre.
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The fourth day, indeed, belongs to the Anuṣṭubh.
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Thus he prospers it with its own metre.
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- Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa — Kauṣītaki, Sanskrit