Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 26.10

English (machine translation) 26.10

The ninth day is the end, the goal.

Yonder sky is that world.

Therefore on the ninth day hymns containing words of going are recited.

‘We have approached the youngest with great reverence’ and ‘Speak, O Agni, of me as strong with soma’—these both are that Ājya recitation.

‘We have approached’ contains a word of going.

That is the characteristic of the end.

The ninth day is the end.

Having gone to the end, one indeed moves as it were;

whither indeed should one go from there?

‘Here the cows stood swelling’ contains a word of standing.

That is the characteristic of the end.

The ninth day is the end.

Having gone to the end, one indeed stands still as it were;

whither indeed should one go from there?

‘We have approached the youngest with great reverence’—this triplet alone should be the Ājya recitation, so Paiṅgya used to say.

‘We have approached’ contains a word of going.

That is the characteristic of the end.

The ninth day is the end.

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