Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 6.1
English (machine translation) 6.1
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Prajāpati, desiring offspring, performed austerity.
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From him, heated [with austerity], five were born:
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Agni, Vāyu, Āditya, Candramas, and Uṣas as the fifth.
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He said to them: "Do you also perform austerity."
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They consecrated themselves.
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To them, consecrated and practicing austerity, Uṣas, daughter of Prajāpati, having assumed the form of an Apsaras, came forward in front.
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Their mind fell upon her.
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They shed semen.
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They went to Prajāpati their father and said:
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"We have shed semen; let this not be lost to us!"
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Prajāpati made a golden bowl, an arrow's length high and the same across.
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In it he poured it together.
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From it arose [a being] with a thousand eyes and a thousand feet,
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with a thousand [arrows] fitted [to his bow].
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He directed himself toward Prajāpati his father.
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He said to him: "Why do you direct yourself toward me?"
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"Give me a name!" he said.
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"For indeed, without a name assigned, I will not eat food here."
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