Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 26.11

English (machine translation) 26.11

‘One goes, as it were, and disappears,’ so Kauṣītaki used to say;

one should additionally recite: ‘Speak, O Agni, of me as strong with soma.’

Its characteristic of the end is just this, that it refers to the past: ‘We have made the forward-reaching sacrifice; they directed from heaven.’

In that this is as it were referring to what is past.

‘Here indeed the stoma is not to be completely encompassed,’ Paiṅgya used to say,

‘if the stoma were encompassed only by verses.’

By syllables indeed the verse reaches the stoma;

by syllables or by words the nivid or the puroruc reaches the verse.

The stoma is indeed completely encompassed there where either a nivid or a puroruc is recited.

Therefore it is indeed completely encompassed.

A triplet would be the Ājya recitation according to that statement of Paiṅgya;

it is established, however, that there are both.

By means of this day, Vasiṣṭha and Viśvāmitra came to agreement.

His own people agree with him for pre-eminence, who knows thus.

Therefore both should indeed be [used]:

the former belonging to Vasiṣṭha, the latter to Viśvāmitra.

The Prauga recitation is in the Triṣṭubh metre.

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