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Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 5.1

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5.1.1

Now next of the Four-Month sacrifices.

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Setting in motion the Four-Month sacrifices, he sets them in motion on the Phālguna full moon day.

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The mouth of the year, truly, is this: namely the Phālguna full moon day.

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The mouth is the Latter Phalgunīs,

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the tail the Former.

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It is just as the two ends of a circle would meet together.

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even so these two ends of the year are joined together.

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Now, when one sacrifices with the Vaiśvadeva on the Phālguna full moon day,

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it is from the head that one gratifies the year.

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Moreover, these Cāturmāsyas are indeed healing sacrifices.

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Therefore, they are performed at the junctions of the seasons,

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for disease arises at the junctions of the seasons.

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There are eight sacrificial oblations.

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Eight indeed are the oblations of four full moon days.

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The Vaiśvadeva is the combination of four full moon days.

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Now, as to why the fire is churned:

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Prajāpati indeed is the Vaiśvadeva.

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Therefore they engender this divine embryo.

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Now, that there are seventeen kindling verses, that the two butter portions contain the word 'sad', and that the two samyājyā offering verses are in the Virāj metre—the brāhmaṇa explanation of that has been stated.

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Now, that there are nine fore-offerings, nine after-offerings, eight oblations, and the vājina draught as the ninth:

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thereby one obtains the sidereal Virāj.

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