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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THE BRAHMAṆA OF TWENTY FIVE CHAPTERS.
thrice the first verse), then four (four times the second verse), then one
(the third verse); for eight (verses) he makes him he (chants) one
(verse, the first), then three (thrice the second verse), then four (four
times the third verse); for eight (verses) he makes him: he (chants) four
(verses four times the first verse), then one (the second verse), then
three (thrice the third verse) 1.
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1 Schema hum 1. 1. 1. 2. 2. 2. 2 3; hum 1. 2. 2. 2. 3. 3. 3 3; hum 1. 1. 1. 1. 2.
3. 3. 3 (3. 4. 1; 1. 3. 4; 4. 1. 3).
2. The Chandoma (days) are cattle¹; in that he makes him each
time for eight (verses), cattle being eight-hoofed, he gains cattle hoof by
hoof.
1 Simply because of the greater number of verses.
3. Fixed¹ by four (verses) is (this visṭuti); the circulating (verse)
is one single, cattle is four-footed, the circulating (verse) is the Sacrificer;
in that he fixes (this vistuti) by four (verses) and in that the circulat-
ing (verse) is one in number, he thereby gives to the Sacrificer a firm
support among cattle. This is the firmly supported vistuti belonging
to the twenty-four-versed (chant); firmly supported is he who in
chanting practises this (vistuti).
1 Cp. note 1 on III. 1. 3.
III. 9.
1. For fifteen (verses) he makes him: he (chants) three (verses:
thrice the first verse), then eleven (eleven times the second verse), then
one (the third verse); for fourteen (verses) he makes him: he (chants)
one (verse, the first), then three (thrice the second verse), then ten (ten
times the third verse); for fifteen (verses) he makes him he (chants)
eleven (verses, eleven times the first verse), then one (the second), then
three (thrice the third verse) 1.
1 Schema hum I. 1. 1. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 3; hum 1. 2. 2. 2. 3. 3. 3. 3.
3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3; hum 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. I. 1. 1. 1. 1. 2. 3. 3. 3 (3. 11. 1=15; 1. 3. 10–14.
11. 13-15, together 44).
2. The first (verse of the tristich) is the place of priesthood, the
second of nobility, the third of peasantry; in that the first two (verses)
occur each fifteen times 1, but the last (the third verse) fourteen times²,
he thereby brings vigour and strength in priesthood as well as nobility,
he thereby makes peasantry subject to priesthood as well as nobility.
