Essay name: Panchavimsha Brahmana (English translation)
Author: W. Caland
This is the English translation of the Panchavimsha Brahmana, named so because it consists of twenty-five chapters (prapathakas). The text is classified as a Vedic Shruti commentary attached to the Samaveda, belonging to both of its Kauthuma and Ranayaniya recensions (shakhas).
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III. 3. 2.—III. 5. 1. 35 is (this vistuti), the circulating verse is one single; seven are the kinds.
of domestic animals, the circulating (verse) 1 is (equal to) the Sacrificer.
In that he fixes (this vistuti) by seven verses, and in that there is one
single circulating (verse), he thereby gives finally (once for all) to the
Sacrificer firm support among cattle. This is the firmly supported
(visṭuti) belonging to the thirty-three-versed (chant); firm support gets
he who in chanting practises this (vistuti).
1 Viz., of the six-day sacrificial period: the saḍaha
2 Cp. note 1 on III. 1. 3.
III. 4.
1. For eleven (verses) he makes him he (chants) three (verses:
thrice the first verse), then five (five times the second verse), then three
(thrice the third verse); for eleven (verses) he makes him he (chants)
three (verses thrice the first verse), then three (thrice the second
verse), then five (five times the third verse); for eleven (verses) he
makes him he (chants) five (verses: five times the first verse), then
three (thrice the second verse), then three (thrice the third verse) ¹. (It
is the vistuti) 'of nearer stair' 2.
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1 Schema hum 1. 1. 1. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 3. 3. 3; hum 1. 1. 1. 2. 2. 2. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3;
hum 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 2. 2. 2. 3. 3. 3. (3. 5. 3, 3. 3. 5, 5. 3. 3).
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2 The same expression III. 13. 1. The transition from 3 to 5 and from 5 to
3 in the different vistāvas is ‘nearer (‘less') than in the preceding viṣtuti (of III.
3), where the samkrama is from 3 to 7 and from 7 to 1.
2. The thirty-three versed (chant) is the end. Just as one, who has
climbed to the top of a big tree, advances from a 'nearer' stair, so
he hereby, by the (vistuti) of 'nearer' stair, advances from the
' nearer' stair.
1 3. Fixed by five (verses) is (this vistuti), the circulating (verses)
are three in number, fivefold is cattle, man comprises his self (ātman),
his children, his wife (and so makes up three, viz., as much as in the
number of the circulating verses). In that the circulating (verses) are
three in number, he thereby gives to the Sacrificer firm support among
cattle. Rich in cattle is he who in chanting practises this (vistuti).
1 Cp. note 1 on III. 1. 3.
III. 5.
1. For nine (verses) he makes him he (chants) three (verses:
thrice the first verse), then five (five times the second verse), then one
