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Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 25.12

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Moreover, Prajāpati is the Viśvajit.

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The Viśvajit is everything, Prajāpati.

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He who knows thus attains everything through everything.

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There, in the Agnimāruta, having recited the verse to Rudra, the hotṛ recites the Evayāmarut hymn in fivefold recitation.

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Fivefold is the sacrifice, for the attainment of the sacrifice,

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[and] lest we omit the śilpa of the Acchāvāka.

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Moreover, Rudra is the eldest and the most excellent among the gods.

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The Aticchandas [is the most excellent] among the metres.

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The Viśvajit [is the most excellent] among the one-day rites.

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Thus he prospers it with its own metre.

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He inserts the nyūṅkha in three [verses] of it.

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If he should care to insert the nyūṅkha,

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he should insert the nyūṅkha in all of them.

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The nyūṅkha is food.

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Food is breath.

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The artful recitations are the vital breaths;

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he thereby places vital breaths in the vital breath.

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Moreover, through the Viśvajit, Prajāpati generated all creatures and conquered everything.

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Indeed, he who sacrifices with the Viśvajit is born in this manner;

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therefore he inserts the nyūṅkha.

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For in the beginning, one wanders about, as it were, babbling, when trying to move.

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Therefore, they generate him from the immortal meter for immortality.

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Those who undertake the Viśvajit attain immortality.

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It concludes as an Agniṣṭoma,

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