Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 28.1

English (machine translation) 28.1

For Prajāpati created the sacrifice.

With that [sacrifice] created, the gods sacrificed.

Having sacrificed with it, they obtained all desires.

For its sake, they laid aside the success-bringing [portion],

namely, these ritual calls and nigadas.

Then the seers sacrificed with the rest of the sacrifice.

They realized:

"Indeed, we are sacrificing with an incomplete sacrifice; we do not attain all desires."

They toiled.

They saw these ritual calls and nigadas.

Having sacrificed with that [sacrifice] accompanied by ritual calls and accompanied by nigadas, they obtained all desires.

Indeed, for this purpose are the ritual calls and nigadas:

"Whatever of the sacrifice was not attained through the ṛc-verses, all that we shall attain through these."

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