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Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 25.7

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When this verse used for the difficult mounting is completely recited, seven Jagatī verses are produced.

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These make thirty-eight.

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“He [has brought low] the many [hostile deeds] of that wanderer” is a six-verse hymn in Jagatī metre; containing “the sun accompanies Indra like the dawn”, it contains [the word] sun.

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That is the characteristic mark of this day.

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These make forty-four.

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“The bird anointed with the asura’s craft” is three verses,

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by virtue of this characteristic mark: “that shining, heavenly prayer…”.

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These make forty-seven.

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With “Guide us, knowing, to broad space”, recited thrice as the concluding verse,

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by virtue of this characteristic mark: “Sun-like light, safety, well-being…”,

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these make fifty.

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The earlier [verses] were fifty-one.

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These become one hundred and one verses.

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A person has a life of one hundred [years], a hundred joints, a hundred powers, a hundred faculties.

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That which is the one-hundred-and-first is the world of the sacrificer.

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Thus here they refine the sacrificers.

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Having thus refined the sacrificers here, in the beginning, they generate them with the Mahāvrata day—this is the Paiṅgya concord.

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Now Kauṣītaki’s [view]:

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[The procedure is] the same up to the Ukthyamukhīyā [verse].

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The Ṛtur janitrīyam consists of thirteen verses, the Bṛhat and Rathantara [verses] having been removed.

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Of that, eleven [verses are recited] in their own womb;

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nine elsewhere,

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with the characteristic [verse], 'Changing its form, he went alone through the waters.'

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[Then follows the hymn,] 'Come, O Indra, with your bay steeds,' consisting of fifteen [verses],

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with the characteristic [verse], 'Come well unto us with like-formed [steeds].'

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Having recited eleven [verses] of the higher [group], he inserts the nivid.

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Having recited fifty-one [verses] in the middle of a hundred and one, he goes up to two of the higher [group].

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'May the true Maghavan, consumer of the soma dregs, come' consists of twenty-one; they [become] twenty-three.

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[The hymn beginning] 'Viśvajitaḥ' consists of six; they [become] twenty-nine.

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The Dūrohaṇa [verses] are seven; they [become] thirty-six.

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'You alone were born, O lord of wealth, among wealth' is a Triṣṭubh hymn of five verses, containing 'sun' on account of: 'at the tenth turn of the sun.'

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That is the characteristic mark of this day.

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They [become] forty-one.

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'That swift, god-impelled steed' is the Tārkṣya [hymn], consisting of three [verses],

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with the characteristic [verse], 'Like the sun with light, he has stretched across the waters.'

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They [become] forty-four.

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The Pataṅga [hymn] consists of three [verses]; they [become] forty-seven.

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With the concluding verse, 'Lead us forward, knowing, to a wide world,' recited thrice, they become fifty.

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The earlier [verses] are fifty-one.

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They make one hundred and one verses; the Brāhmaṇa explanation of them has [already] been told.

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