Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 0.17.p1

0.17.p1

tasya prāṇaḥ prathama utkrāmati
sa heyattāṃ devebhya ācaṣṭa iyadasya sādhu kṛtamiyatpāpamiti
atha hāyaṃ dhūmena sahordhva utkrāmati
tasya haitasyartavo dvārapāḥ
tebhyo haitena prabruvīta
vicakṣaṇādṛtavo reta ābhṛtamardhamāsyaṃ prasutātpitryāvataḥ
taṃ mā puṃsi kartaryerayadhvaṃ puṃsaḥ karturmātaryāsiṣikta
sa upajāyopajāyamāno dvādaśena trayodaśopamāsaḥ
saṃ tadvide prati tadvide'haṃ taṃ mā ṛtavo'mṛta ānayadhvam
iti
taṃ hartava ānayante
yathā vidvānvidvāṃsaṃ yathā jānañjānantamevaṃ hainamṛtava ānayante
taṃ hātyarjayante
sa haitamāgacchati tapantam
taṃ hāgataṃ pṛcchati kastvamasi iti
sa yo ha nāmnā vā gotreṇa vā prabrūte taṃ hāha yaste'yaṃ mayyātmābhūdeṣa te saḥ
iti
tasminhātmanpratipanna ṛtavassaṃpalāyya padgṛhītamapakarṣanti
tasya hāhorātre lokamāpnutaḥ
tasmādu haitena prabruvīta ko'hamasmi suvastvam
sa tvāṃ svargyaṃ svaragāmiti
ko ha vai prajāpatiḥ

—his breath ascends first. It announces to the gods the measure [of his deeds]: 'So much good was done by him, so much evil.' Then this one ascends upward along with the smoke. The seasons are his doorkeepers. He should declare to them with this [formula]: 'From the far-seeing, O seasons, the semen has been brought, formed in a half-month, from the generative [father] possessed of fathers. Set me, such as I am, in a male who is an agent; poured from a male who is an agent into a mother, being born and reborn through the twelfth [month], as the thirteenth, an intercalary month—I know that together, I know that in response; as such, O seasons, lead me to the immortal.' Then the seasons lead him. Just as one who knows [leads] one who knows, just as one who understands [leads] one who understands, so indeed the seasons lead him. They let him pass through. He comes to this one who burns [above]. To him who has arrived, he asks: 'Who are you?' He who proclaims himself by name or by lineage, to him he says: 'This self of yours which was in me, this is that of yours.' When he has received that self, the seasons, having run together, seize him by the feet and drag him away. Day and night take possession of his world. Therefore he should declare with this [formula]: 'Who (Ko) am I; heaven (suvas) are you. As such, I have come to you, the heavenly, to heaven.' 'Who' (Ka) is indeed Prajāpati.