Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 6.10
English (machine translation) 6.10
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6.10.1
By the Cāturmāsya sacrifices they obtained heavenly worlds, all desires, all attainments, all immortality.
6.10.2
This Prajāpati, the twenty-fourfold year, is the Cāturmāsya sacrifices.
6.10.3
His mouth is the Vaiśvadeva;
6.10.4
the New and Full Moon sacrifices are his joints;
6.10.5
days and nights are the bones and marrow;
6.10.6
the arms are the Varuṇapraghāsa offerings;
6.10.7
out-breath, in-breath, and diffused breath are these three iṣṭis;
6.10.8
the body is the Mahāhavis;
6.10.11
the deities here within are the other iṣṭis.
6.10.12
Prajāpati, the twenty-fourfold year, is indeed everything;
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the Cāturmāsya sacrifices are everything.
6.10.14
Thus by means of the whole he obtains the whole—he who knows thus, he who knows thus.
Linked texts (1)
- Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa — Kauṣītaki, Sanskrit