Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 30
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- 30.1 — 25 parts
- 30.2 — 21 parts
- 30.3 — 23 parts
- 30.4 — 22 parts
- 30.5 — 34 parts
- 30.6 — 24 parts
- 30.7 — 21 parts
- 30.8 — 28 parts
- 30.9 — 36 parts
30.1.1
He recites a Triṣṭubh as the invitatory verse for the Āditya draught; the explanation of it has been stated.
30.1.2
Then, when the Pavamāna has been chanted, they proceed with the animal [victim]; the explanation of it has been stated.
30.1.3
Then they proceed with the havis-paṅkti; the explanation of it has been stated.
30.1.4
At the third pressing he recites Vāmadeva's verses for the [cups] being drawn.
30.1.5
Vāmadeva indeed proclaimed Soma to Indra at the third pressing.
30.1.6
They contain [the word] āvat and contain [the word] harivat in the form of an invitatory verse.
30.1.7
They are Triṣṭubh [verses] addressed to Indra and the Ṛbhus.
30.1.8
Thereby he makes Indra share in half of the pressing.
30.1.9
He recites nine [verses].
30.1.10
For here they draw nine goblets.
30.1.11
As is the departure, so is the conclusion.
30.1.12
Then they sacrifice together the hotrā [oblations]; the explanation of them has been stated.
30.1.13
The offering verses are Jagatīs containing [the words] andhas, mad, and pīta.
30.1.14
For the third pressing belongs to the Jagatī.
30.1.15
They pronounce the secondary vaṣaṭ-call just for the appeasement of the oblations,
30.1.16
for the firm foundation of the oblations.
30.1.17
Then [comes] the iḍā, then the goblet of the hotṛ; the explanation of it has been stated.
30.1.18
They throw the aupāsana [offerings] at the third pressing; the explanation of them has been stated.
30.1.19
He recites a Triṣṭubh as the invitatory verse for the Sāvitra draught; the explanation of it has been stated.
30.1.20
Then, because between the ukthas he sacrifices the fires of the Patnīvant,
30.1.21
thereby the two attain along with the hotṛ.
30.1.22
The ukthya recitations are addressed to Indra and Agni; the explanation of them has been stated.
30.1.23
Then they recite these Jagatī hymns addressed to Indra.
30.1.24
The Jagatī is indeed cattle.
30.1.25
Cattle belong to the Jagatī, [and this is] just for the attainment of cattle.
30.2.1
Some say: 'They should be fixed,' calling them 'supports of the pressing.'
30.2.2
However, the established rule is indeed: 'Different ones [each day].'
30.2.3
For they enter upon a different day each time.
30.2.4
Then they recite [hymns] addressed to Varuṇa, Bṛhaspati, and Viṣṇu.
30.2.5
The metre of these is Jagatī, and Indra's is Triṣṭubh.
30.2.6
Since the metres are reversed for the dual deity,
30.2.7
they recite [hymns] addressed to Indra and Varuṇa, Indra and Bṛhaspati, Indra and Viṣṇu.
30.2.8
By these they recite along with the draughts.
30.2.9
For in this way the draughts are taken.
30.2.10
'Indra who sustains the folk, Maghavan, worthy of praise' is [recited by] the Maitrāvaruṇa; its brāhmaṇa has [already] been told.
30.2.11
Day after day, the closing verse belongs to Vasiṣṭha.
30.2.12
For Vasiṣṭha saw this third pressing for the Maitrāvaruṇa's recitation.
30.2.13
Therefore day after day the closing verse belongs to Vasiṣṭha.
30.2.14
On the third day, they bring forward [verses] in Kakubh metres for the Maitrāvaruṇa.
30.2.15
Thereby he comes under the control of the Brāhmaṇācchaṃsin.
30.2.16
Then on the fourth day, they bring forward [verses] each in their own metre.
30.2.17
Thus they proceed establishing themselves firmly each in their own metre.
30.2.18
They bring forward [verses] in Gāyatrī for the Maitrāvaruṇa, in Uṣṇih for the Brāhmaṇācchaṃsin, and in Anuṣṭubh for the Acchāvāka, for the sake of higher and higher [eminence].
30.2.19
Thus their metres increase by four syllables each.
30.2.20
On the fifth day, they bring forward [verses] in Paṅkti for the Maitrāvaruṇa.
30.2.21
For the fifth day belongs to the Paṅkti.
30.3.1
On the sixth day, they bring forward [verses] in Dvipadā for all [of them].
30.3.2
For the sixth day belongs to the Dvipadā.
30.3.3
Moreover, they perform the sāmans: Gūrda, Bhadra, and Udvaṃśaputra.
30.3.4
Moreover, the crafts (śilpa) accompany the Dvipadā.
30.3.5
Therefore the crafts are recited,
30.3.6
lest [they think]: 'We have deviated from the crafts.'
30.3.7
Here the hotṛ pours seed by means of the Nābhānediṣṭha [hymn].
30.3.8
He hands it over to the Maitrāvaruṇa.
30.3.9
He modifies it with the Vālakhilyās.
30.3.10
Then he recites these Vālakhilyās interwoven.
30.3.11
In the first two hymns he interweaves [them] quarter-verse by quarter-verse.
30.3.12
Joint by joint he thus gathers it together.
30.3.13
Half-verse by half-verse in the second [pair].
30.3.14
Man has indeed two halves of the skull.
30.3.15
Them he thus unites.
30.3.16
Verse by verse in the third [pair].
30.3.17
Whole he thus gathers him together.
30.3.18
He should transpose the two Nārāśaṃsa [verses].
30.3.19
Therefore embryos are born inverted.
30.3.20
He ascends the difficult ascent (dūrohaṇa) on the Tārkṣya [hymn].
30.3.21
Tārkṣya is Vāyu.
30.3.22
Vāyu is breath.
30.3.23
Thus the sacrificers ascend breath.
30.4.1
He hands it over to the Brāhmaṇācchaṃsin.
30.4.2
He receives him when born with the Sukīrti [hymn] as a womb.
30.4.3
Then he recites this Vṛṣākapi [hymn] recited in Paṅktis. / The Paṅkti has five feet.
30.4.5
Fivefold is the sacrifice, for obtaining the sacrifice.
30.4.6
He inserts the nyūṅkha.
30.4.7
Food is the nyūṅkha.
30.4.8
Thus as soon as he is born, he places food and nourishment in him.
30.4.9
Then he recites this Kuntāpa [hymn] according to the metres,
30.4.10
for obtaining all the metres:
30.4.11
the Nārāśaṃsīs, the Raibhīs, the Kāravyās, the Indra-gāthās, the Bhūtecchads, the Pārikṣitīs, and the Etaśapralāpa.
30.4.12
Etaśa the sage indeed saw the lifespan of the sacrifice.
30.4.13
He said to his sons: / 'Dear sons, I have seen the lifespan of the sacrifice; I shall declare it.
30.4.15
Do not think me mad.'
30.4.16
They said, 'So be it.'
30.4.17
He then declared it.
30.4.18
His eldest son crawled up to him and seized his mouth, [saying]:
30.4.19
'Our father has gone mad!'
30.4.20
He said to him:
30.4.21
'Perish! Fie on you, wretch!
30.4.22
I shall make your offspring the worst!
30.4.23
If you, wretch, had not stopped my mouth, / I would have made cattle live a hundred years, and man live a thousand years!'
30.4.25
Therefore the Aitaśāyanas, though of noble birth, are the worst among the Bhṛgus, cursed by their father, by their own deity, by their own Prajāpati.
30.5.1
He recites in addition the verses of the Ādityas and the Aṅgirases.
30.5.2
The Ādityas and the Aṅgirases indeed contended.
30.5.3
'We shall go first to the heavenly world,' said the Ādityas. / 'We [shall],' said the Aṅgirases.
30.5.5
Those Aṅgirases sent [a messenger] to the Ādityas:
30.5.6
"Our soma pressing is tomorrow; officiate at sacrifice for us!"
30.5.7
Agni was their messenger.
30.5.8
Those Ādityas said:
30.5.9
"Now, our soma pressing is today.
30.5.10
Of ours, you indeed are the hotṛ.
30.5.11
Bṛhaspati is the brahman priest; this one is the udgātṛ; Ghora Āṅgirasa is the adhvaryu."
30.5.12
They did not refuse them.
30.5.13
With these [verses] they wished to bestow [gifts] upon him; this is what these [verses] proclaim.
30.5.15
They brought a white horse as the sacrificial fee, this very one who shines here.
30.5.16
Then indeed the Ādityas went to heaven.
30.5.19
To heaven goes he who knows thus.
30.5.18
He recites the arrangements of the directions.
30.5.19_2
The directions are arranged for him.
30.5.20
He recites the arrangements of the peoples.
30.5.21
The peoples are arranged for him.
30.5.22
He recites riddles, rejoinders, abusive words, and erotic verses—all forms of speech.
30.5.23
Therefore man speaks all forms of speech, [while] the other animals each [speak only] one.
30.5.25
They are eight [in number].
30.5.26
By these indeed the gods attained all attainments.
30.5.27
Even so now the sacrificers attain all attainments by these alone.
30.5.28
"O men, hold up the penis!" [and] "When ye came eastward..." are two isolated verses.
30.5.29
They amount to ten.
30.5.30
The Virāṭ has sets of ten.
30.5.31
The Virāṭ is prosperity and food.
30.5.32
[It is] for the attainment of prosperity, of the Virāṭ, of food.
30.5.33
He recites the Dādhikrī [verse]; speech indeed is the Dādhikrī [verse].
30.5.35
Thus he bestows speech in him.
30.5.36
He recites the Pāvamāna [hymn].
30.5.37
The Pāvamāna verses are a purifier.
30.5.38
Thus he purifies this [sacrifice].
30.6.1
He hands it over to the acchāvāka.
30.6.2
He makes him, as one born, move along with the Evayāmarut [hymn].
30.6.3
He inserts the nyūṅkha.
30.6.4
For as though tottering, one first walks when trying to walk.
30.6.5
Then from the immortal metre they engender him unto immortality.
30.6.6
They who undertake the sixth day attain immortality.
30.6.7
Having recited the stotriya and anurūpa [verses], he recites the Vālakhilyās.
30.6.8
The body indeed is the stotriya and anurūpa [verses].
30.6.9
The vital breaths are the Vālakhilyās.
30.6.10
And unseparated are these vital breaths from the body.
30.6.11
As to that, they say: "Why are they called the Vālakhilyās?"
30.6.12
What is unbroken between two cultivated fields,
30.6.13
that indeed they call a strip of waste land (khila).
30.6.14
And separated only by a hair's breadth are these vital breaths.
30.6.15
In that they are separated [only by a hair],
30.6.16
therefore they are the Vālakhilyās.
30.6.17
He performs the difficult climb (dūrohaṇa) on the Tārkṣya [hymn]; that has been explained.
30.6.18
In Gāyatrī verses they lead on for the brāhmaṇācchaṃsin on the second day.
30.6.19
Thereby he comes under the control of the maitrāvaruṇa.
30.6.20
"To the most generous, great, possessing great wealth..." is a hymn of six verses in Jagatī; its explanation has been told.
30.6.21
It is twice as much as that of the maitrāvaruṇa.
30.6.22
A hymn by Kṛṣṇa is the concluding stanza day by day.
30.6.23
Kṛṣṇa Āṅgirasa saw this third pressing for the recitation of the brāhmaṇācchaṃsin.
30.6.24
Therefore a hymn by Kṛṣṇa is the concluding stanza day by day.
30.7.1
In Uṣṇih verses they lead on for the acchāvāka on the first day.
30.7.2
Thereby he comes under the control of the brāhmaṇācchaṃsin.
30.7.3
The hymn consisting of thirteen verses, beginning with "The season is the begetter...", its explanation has been told.
30.7.4
It is twice as much as that of the brāhmaṇācchaṃsin, and one verse in addition.
30.7.5
A hymn by Bharadvāja is the concluding stanza day by day.
30.7.6
Bharadvāja indeed saw this third pressing for the acchāvāka's office.
30.7.7
Therefore, day by day, the concluding verse is by Bharadvāja.
30.7.8
The acchāvāka alternates between two verses addressed to Viṣṇu.
30.7.9
The other two have two concluding verses.
30.7.10
Both the Maitrāvaruṇa and the Brāhmaṇācchaṃsin have two concluding verses.
30.7.11
The acchāvāka has a single concluding verse.
30.7.12
As to why the acchāvāka has an unchanging concluding verse:
30.7.13
The acchāvāka is indeed support; it is for support.
30.7.14
The Maitrāvaruṇa recites thirty-six [verses] on the twenty-fourth day.
30.7.15
The Brāhmaṇācchaṃsin [recites] forty.
30.7.16
The acchāvāka [recites] forty-four.
30.7.17
That makes one hundred and twenty.
30.7.18
One hundred and twenty, indeed, are the days of a season.
30.7.19
Thus they obtain the season;
30.7.20
through the season, the year;
30.7.21
and whatever desires are in the year.
30.8.1
The Maitrāvaruṇa recites five hymns each in the third pressing on all the Chandoma days.
30.8.2
The Chandoma days are indeed cattle.
30.8.3
Cattle are fivefold.
30.8.4
It is just for the obtaining of cattle.
30.8.5
The Brāhmaṇācchaṃsin recites four hymns on the first Chandoma day.
30.8.6
The Chandoma days are indeed cattle.
30.8.7
Cattle are indeed fourfold;
30.8.8
moreover, they are four-footed, just for the obtaining of cattle.
30.8.9
He recites five hymns each on the two subsequent Chandoma days.
30.8.10
The Chandoma days are indeed cattle.
30.8.11
Cattle are fivefold.
30.8.12
It is just for the obtaining of cattle.
30.8.13
The acchāvāka recites five hymns on the first Chandoma day.
30.8.14
The Chandoma days are indeed cattle.
30.8.18
Fivefold are the seasons, the year.
30.8.19
It is just for the obtaining of the year.
30.8.20
The recitations have four callings.
30.8.21
The ukthas are indeed cattle.
30.8.22
Cattle are indeed fourfold;
30.8.23
moreover, they are four-footed, just for the obtaining of cattle.
30.8.24
On the sixth day only, that of the Maitrāvaruṇa has five callings.
30.8.25
The ukthas are indeed cattle.
30.8.26
Cattle are fivefold.
30.8.27
It is just for the obtaining of cattle.
30.8.28
The offering verses of the ukthas are those belonging to the one-day rite.
30.8.29
The one-day rite is indeed a support; it is for support.
30.8.30
They pronounce the secondary vaṣaṭ-call, just for the appeasement of the oblations,
30.8.31
for the establishing of the oblations.
30.9.1
They recite five metres at night:
30.9.2
the Anuṣṭubh, the Gāyatrī, the Uṣṇih, the Triṣṭubh, and the Jagatī.
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Translations (1)
- Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda (HOS 25) — Arthur Berriedale Keith 1920, English
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- Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa — Kauṣītaki, Sanskrit