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Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 29.1

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Now, when the gods performed the sacrifice at Sarvacaru,

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Arbuda Kādraveya slithered up to them at midday and said:

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'One function of the hotṛ is indeed not performed—that of the grāvastut.

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Let me perform that for you; invite me.'

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They said, 'So be it.'

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They invited him.

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He saw these appropriate [verses] of the grāvastut:

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'Let these speak out, let us speak out' when they speak out;

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for they speak out, he speaks out.

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Now where [there is] 'loudly, loudly'—

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there [he recites] 'They speak loudly with the exhilarating [soma] intoxicant.'

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'Unfasten thoroughly' when they unfasten.

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They are fourteen [verses].

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Ten are the fingers, four are the pressing-stones;

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to that they correspond.

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They are in the Jagatī metre.

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The pressing-stones belong to the Jagatī metre.

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Now, that he concludes with a Triṣṭubh [verse]—

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they are indeed in the Jagatī metre;

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the pressing-stones belong to the Jagatī metre;

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now, that he concludes with a Triṣṭubh [verse],

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thereby the Triṣṭubh is obtained at the midday [pressing].

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He praises standing.

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The pressing-stones stand, as it were.

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He praised wearing a turban and with his eyes bound.

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Therefore even now one praises the pressing-stones wearing a turban.

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Moreover, indeed, they say:

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He was an eye-poisoned serpent.

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His poison approached the priests.

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He praised with these Pavamāna verses that dispel poison.

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That he praises with Pavamāna verses that dispel poison is

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verily for the appeasement of the sacrifice,

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and for the healing of the sacrificer.

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