Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.49

1.49

tasyai vaspāmutkhidya śīrṣṇi parivyayanti
hastayormatasnī hṛdaye hṛdayaṃ bāhvorbāhū
yathāṅgamevetarāṇyaṅgāni vicinvanti
athainaṃ carmaṇā prorṇvanti svayā tanvā samṛdhyasva iti
saṃstīryopādīpayanti
sa tathaiva cikīrṣedyathainamāhavanīyaḥ prathamo gacchet
tadenaṃ devalokaḥ pratyāgacchati
atha yathānvāhāryapacanastadenaṃ pitṛlokaḥ pratyāgacchati
atha yathā gārhapatyastathāsmim̐lloke prajayā ca paśubhiśca pratitiṣṭhati
tasyopādīptasya dhūma eva śarīraṃ dhunoti
sa yaddhunoti tasmāddhunaḥ
dhuno ha vai nāmaiśaḥ
taṃ dhūma iti parokṣamācakṣate parokṣeṇaiva
parokṣapriyā iva hi devāḥ
dhūmādvai rātrimapyeti rātriyā
aharahno'pocchantīpakṣamapocchantīpakṣādāpūryamāṇapakṣamāpūryamāṇapakṣānmāsam
te atra māse śarīraṃ cāsuśca saṃgacchāte
taṃ hartūnāmeko yaḥ kūṭahasto raśminā pratyavetya pṛcchati ko'si puruṣeti

Tearing off its caul, they wrap it around the head; the kidneys on the hands, the heart on the heart, the arms on the arms. According to the limbs they distribute the other limbs. Then they cover him with a hide: ‘Unite with your own body!’ Spreading out [the fuel], they set [the fires] alight. He should desire [it] in such a way that the Āhavanīya fire should reach him first. Thereby the world of the gods comes to meet him. Then, as the Anvāhāryapacana [reaches him], thereby the world of the fathers comes to meet him. Then, as the Gārhapatya [reaches him], he stands firm in this world with offspring and cattle. Smoke shakes the body of him when he is set alight. Because it shakes (dhunoti), therefore it is ‘shaker’ (dhuna). Indeed, ‘Shaker’ is his name. Indirectly they call him ‘smoke’ (dhūma), purely indirectly; for the gods love the indirect. From the smoke he goes to the night, from the night to the day, from the day to the waning half-month, from the waning half-month to the waxing half-month, from the waxing half-month to the month. In that month his body and his life-breath come together. One of the seasons, who is club-handed, descending with a ray, asks him: ‘Who are you, O man?’

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taṃ pratibrūyāt

He should reply to him:

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vicakṣaṇādṛtavo reta ābhṛtam

‘From the Far-seeing one, O seasons, the semen has been brought,

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ardhamāsyaṃ prasutātpitryāvataḥ

belonging to the half-month, born from the father-accompanied [Soma]’—

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iti

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yadado vicakṣaṇaṃ somaṃ rājānaṃ juhvati tattat

When they sacrifice King Soma yonder, the far-seeing, that is it.

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taṃ mā puṃsi kartaryerayadhvam

‘Send me into the active male’—

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iti

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puṃsi hyenametatkartaryerayante

For they send him into the active male.

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puṃsaḥ karturmātaryāsiṣikta

‘Pour [me] from the active male into the mother’—

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iti

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mātari hyenamāsiñcati

For he pours him into the mother.

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sa upajāyopajāyamānastrayodaśena dvādaśopamāsaḥ

‘He, being born again and again, with the thirteenth [is] the twelve-month year’—