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Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 27.2

English (machine translation) 27.2

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27.2.1

If he does not think so,

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he should speak out directly against him.

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The Anuṣṭubh is omitted on the tenth day.

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The Anuṣṭubh is speech.

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This speech, being a milch-cow of vows, becomes, as it were, fierce-bearing.

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Therefore it is omitted,

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[thinking:] "Lest we oppress speech."

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Then he transforms the other metres into the Anuṣṭubh.

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Regarding this, one says: "I do not touch a Śūdra woman,

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nor do I wish to let her go;

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nor indeed is there for me elsewhere a twin-like whoring."

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For this Anuṣṭubh is sung around on the tenth day.

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Regarding that they say: "One should not leave the abode of the Anuṣṭubh empty.

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He should recite Virāj verses there.

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For Virāj and Anuṣṭubh are the same metre;

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for by one syllable it does not become another metre,

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nor by two."

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In those very two triplets, six syllables are in excess:

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"Agni, O men, with your reflections, from the two fire-sticks..." in the stotriya and anurūpa verses of the Agniṣṭoma-sāman, [there are] six [in each].

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Those are twelve syllables.

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