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Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.58

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.58

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Sanskrit

1.58

tadāhuryadetasya dīrghasattriṇo'gnihotraṃ juhvato'gnihotrī duhyamānopaviśetkiṃ tatra
karma kā prāyaścittiriti
tāmu haike yajuṣotthāpayanti
avṛttiṃ vā eṣā yajamānasya pāpmānaṃ pratidṛśyopaviśati yasyāgnihotrī
duhyamānopavisati
tāmutthāpayanti udasthāddevyaditiḥ iti
iyaṃ vai devyaditiḥ
imāmevāsmai tadutthāpayanti
āyuryajñapatāvadhādityāyurevāsmiṃstaddadhati
mitrāya varuṇāya ca iti prāṇāpānau nvai mitrāvaruṇau
prāṇāpānāvevāsmiṃstaddadhati
tāṃ tasyāmevāhutau hutāyāṃ brāhmaṇāya dadati
yaṃ saṃvatsaramanabhyāgamiṣyanto bhavantyavṛttimasminpāpmānaṃ niveśayāma iti
vadantaḥ

Regarding this they say: If, while this performer of a long sacrificial session is offering the fire-offering, the fire-offering cow being milked should sit down, what is the action in that case? What is the expiation? And on that point some make her stand up with a sacrificial formula. She indeed sits down perceiving the misfortune, the evil, of the sacrificer whose fire-offering cow sits down while being milked. They make her stand up [with]: 'The goddess Aditi has arisen.' This [earth] is indeed the goddess Aditi. It is her they make stand up for him. 'She has placed life in the master of the sacrifice' — with this, they place life in him. 'And in Mitra and Varuṇa' — out-breath and in-breath are indeed Mitra and Varuṇa; they place out-breath and in-breath in him. When that oblation is offered, they give her to a Brahmin whom they will not visit for a year, saying: 'We deposit the misfortune, the evil, in him.'

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