Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 8.8
English (machine translation) 8.8
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The subsequent verses are thirty-three.
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All the deities are thirty-three.
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They alone are worthy to lift it up at that time.
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It is brought up together for them.
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He recites the appropriate milking verses.
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What is appropriate in the sacrifice is complete, for the completeness of the sacrifice.
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He praises with the two appropriate verses containing the word 'pour': 'Pour out splendour into the pressed [soma]...' and 'Now indeed the ṛṣi of the Aśvins...'
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As it is being raised, he praises with the appropriate verse containing the word 'raised': 'Up that god Savitṛ with golden...'
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As they walk forward, he praises with the appropriate verse to Brahmaṇaspati containing 'forward': 'May Brahmaṇaspati go forward...'
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As they walk, he praises with the appropriate verse containing 'flying': 'The fair-winged one flying upon the vault of heaven...'
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He should sacrifice with two [verses].
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A pair is virility, for the sake of virility.
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In the morning, with two containing Triṣṭubhs.
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For he belongs to the Triṣṭubh.
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he stands having supported the three worlds.
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With two [verses] containing the word 'jagat' in the afternoon;
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for he is of Jagatī nature.
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And when he enters, all that moves (jagat) enters after [him].
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Some indeed say: 'Having transposed them, he should make the vaṣaṭ-call with two verses from the Ṛgveda.'
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The established rule, however, is simply: 'as handed down in tradition'.
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Then, he praises with a subsequent appropriate [verse].
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What is appropriate in the sacrifice is successful, for the success of the sacrifice itself.
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'An offering, O bearer of the offering, a great divine abode' [he recites] before the presentation of the oblation.
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Thereby he makes him possessed of an oblation again, its vigor not exhausted.
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He concludes with a verse containing a benediction: 'May you be rich through good pasture.'
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Thereby he utters a benediction for the cattle.
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Thus the cattle do not depart from the sacrificer.
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Now indeed, when the Pravargya has been performed and the Bahiṣpavamāna has been chanted, they state:
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"Then the gods invoked the two Aśvins."
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At this time they should perform the Pravargya in the Āgnīdhra fire-chamber.
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Then, just as in the case of the Upasads,
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in the very same way here too, while praise is being sung,
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the ritual procedure is without taking breath.
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Then, when the rite has been completed,
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the animal sacrifice rite is performed.
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This Mahāvīra [rite] is the midday dismissal.
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As to why they proceed with this at midday:
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the Mahāvīra is yonder one that burns.
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Thereby he gratifies him alone.
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Thereby the manifestation of this very one is produced.
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