Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 23.9
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Now if on that day the hotṛ alone were to make the vaṣaṭ-call,
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the hotṛ would blend the domain of the gods of both the adhvaryu and the householder.
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They run a race, as it were, into the heavenly world on the sixth day.
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He who finishes without taking breath wins the heavenly world.
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Even if he must breathe out,
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he should strive by pressing on again and again.
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'This [Agni] was born in the support of Manu' is the ājya [śastra].
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'This' is unexpressed.
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Prajāpati is indeed unexpressed.
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That is a form pertaining to Prajāpati.
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The aticchandas [verses] have seven pādas, with repeated pādas.
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What this day is, that are these [verses].
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One should not breathe out between the pāda and the repeated pāda.
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The pāda is the self; the repeated pāda is breath.
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If someone were to say of him there:
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'He has separated the self from breath; he will not live,' it would indeed happen so.
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Therefore one should not breathe out between the pāda and the repeated pāda.
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The prauga [śastra] is in aticchandas metres.
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The sixth day indeed belongs to the aticchandas.
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Thus he makes it prosper with its own metre.
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"He who of old of the great ones" is the opening verse of the Marutvatīya recitation.
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"He" is unexpressed.
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And Prajāpati is indeed unexpressed.
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That is a form relating to Prajāpati.
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