Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 3.6
English (machine translation) 3.6
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3.6.1
Both [verses] have the juṣāṇa offering verse.
3.6.2
For they share the same oblation with the fore-offerings.
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Moreover, the juṣāṇa is the priesthood.
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He thus presents the oblation to the gods through the priesthood.
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The two are threefold:
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the 'ye yajāmahe' [formula], the nigada formula, and the vaṣaṭ-call.
3.6.7
The two butter portions are the two eyes.
3.6.8
Threefold indeed is the eye: the white, the black, and the red.
3.6.9
He does not perform the two at the animal sacrifice, nor at the Soma sacrifice.
3.6.10
Possessed of eyes indeed is the rite through the animal;
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[thinking,] 'Lest I make the rite four-eyed, monstrous.'
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Now, as the invitatory verses contain [the root] hū- ('to call'),
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and the offering verses contain pra- ('forth') and contain [the root] dā- ('to give'),
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having called upon [them], he presents the oblation to the gods.
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They are Gāyatrī and Triṣṭubh.
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Gāyatrī is the priesthood;
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Triṣṭubh is the nobility.
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He thus presents the oblation to the gods through the priesthood and the nobility.
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He pronounces the vaṣaṭ-call at the end of the verse;
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thus all his offering verses become endowed with proper form.
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He utters the vaṣaṭ-call with six syllables.
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Six indeed are the seasons;
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he thereby gratifies the seasons.
Translations (1)
- Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English
Linked texts (1)
- Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa — Kauṣītaki, Sanskrit