Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 25.1

English (machine translation) 25.1

The waters performed ascetic heat.

Having performed ascetic heat, they conceived an embryo.

Thence this sun was born in the sixth month.

Therefore the sacrificial sessionists undertake the Divākīrtya day in the sixth month.

He moves north for six months, [and] six [months] turning back.

Therefore the sacrificial sessionists go through six upward months, [and] six turning back.

Between him, verily, are hunger and recurrent death.

Those who undertake the Viṣuvant day conquer both hunger and recurrent death.

Its metrical forms are these:

containing [words meaning] 'sun', 'shining', 'brilliant', 'golden', 'bright', and 'desirable'.

The Ājya recitation is 'From the ocean a sweet wave has arisen'.

For from the ocean, from the waters, this one rises up.

“Indra brought forth the one, the sun” contains [the word] “sun”.

That is the characteristic form of this day.

When recited together, they amount to twenty-one Anuṣṭubhs.

Twenty-one-fold indeed is he who burns yonder.

Thereby they make him prosper with his own characteristic form.

The Prauga [recitation] is in Triṣṭubh metre.

This is indeed the central day (viṣuvant) among the days.

The Triṣṭubh is the central metre (viṣupān) among the metres.

Thereby he makes it prosper with its own metre.

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