Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 25.10
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25.10.1
They obtain the thirteenth, intercalary month when they undertake the Viśvajit.
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Of such extent indeed is the year, which is this thirteenth month.
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Thus the whole year is obtained right here.
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They call it a one-day six-day rite.
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Whatever is performed day by day in the six-day rite,
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that is performed in the single day in the Viśvajit.
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Thus this manifold, multiform [rite] is performed in the Viśvajit,
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in that all the pṛṣṭha stotras and all the stomā chants, high and low, are combined together.
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The Vairāja alone is its visible pṛṣṭha.
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In the midday Pavamāna, the Rathantara [is performed].
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The Bṛhat is performed in the third Pavamāna.
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The Śākvara is for the Maitrāvaruṇa.
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The Vairūpa is for the Brāhmaṇācchaṃsin.
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The Raivata is for the Acchāvāka.
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They attain this thirteenth, intercalary month.
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For this is the thirteenth.
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They undertake the pṛṣṭha [sāmans].
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The ājya [śastra] belonging to the Vairāja is 'The men [have generated] Agni from the two kindling sticks by their reflections.'
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The Vairāja is the pṛṣṭha; the brāhmaṇa of it has been stated.
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The ājya [śastra] belongs to Vasiṣṭha.
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The pṛṣṭha belongs to Vasiṣṭha; the brāhmaṇa of it has been stated.
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The prauga [śastra] is of Madhucchandas; the brāhmaṇa of it has been stated.
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The marutvatīya [śastra] is 'With what splendour, of like age, sharing the same nest?'
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The hymn containing 'with what' (kayā-śubhīya) contains the interrogative ka.
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Ka is indeed Prajāpati; [he is] the Viśvajit.
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Those very two which are the stotriya and anurūpa of the Vairāja are the stotriya and anurūpa.
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In both of them he inserts the nyūṅkha in the very same way as [he did] there on the fourth day.
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For that is the place of the Vairāja, not meant to be without nyūṅkha.
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