Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 5.3
English (machine translation) 5.3
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5.3.1
By means of the Vaiśvadeva, Prajāpati created creatures.
5.3.2
Having been created, [yet] not having brought forth offspring, they ate the barley of Varuṇa.
5.3.3
Varuṇa bound them with Varuṇa's nooses.
5.3.4
Those creatures approached their father Prajāpati and ran up to him [saying]:
5.3.5
"Devise that sacrificial rite by sacrificing with which we may be completely freed from Varuṇa's nooses and from all evil."
5.3.6
Then Prajāpati saw this sacrificial rite, the Varuṇapraghāsa.
5.3.7
He brought it, he sacrificed with it.
5.3.8
Having sacrificed with it, he gratified Varuṇa.
5.3.9
He, being gratified, released the creatures from Varuṇa's nooses and from all evil.
5.3.10
The offspring of him who knows thus are indeed completely released from Varuṇa's nooses and from all evil.
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