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Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 25.6

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25.6.1

“To your two bay horses at the great rite I would recite…”;

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having recited nine [verses] of it, having called [with the āhāva], he inserts the nivid.

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Containing “reveal [the light] to the bay horse, to the sun”, it contains [the word] sun.

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That is the characteristic mark of this day.

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He continues beyond the four [verses] of the hymn addressed to the bay horses [“pra te mahe”].

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“May the true, the generous, the drinker of soma dregs come” is twenty-one [verses],

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by virtue of this characteristic mark: “They made the two great lights shine, when indeed from the dawn…”.

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These make twenty-five.

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“To the all-conquering, wealth-winning, sun-winning” are six Jagatī verses,

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by virtue of this characteristic mark: “For Indra, the worshipful, the desirable soma…”.

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These make thirty-one.

25.6.12

On those Jagatī verses he mounts the difficult mounting.

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He who burns here is connected with the Jagatī;

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the difficult mounting belongs to the sacrificers.

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Thereby the sacrificers mount him.

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Thereby they obtain the atmosphere world.

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Three times by padas is the third;

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thereby they obtain that yonder world.

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Entire, it is the entrance.

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Three times by padas, by half-verses, by padas;

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thereby they become established in this world,

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in a firm establishment without falling away.

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