Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-3.72

2-3.72

tāvanti tārakanakṣatrāni tāvanti jyotīṃṣi tāvanto'rkāḥ
āpnoti ha vā etāni tārakanakṣatrāṇyāpnoti jyotīṃṣyāpnotyarkānya evaṃ veda
athāsya stotryāṇāṃ navatiśca sahasrāṇi trīṇi ca śatāni ṣaṇṇavatiśca
tadetacchlokenābhigītam
stotryā asya navatissahasrā trī ca śatā navatiścopa ṣaṭca
tābhissaṃstuto vivasāna eti bhūtaṃ bhaviṣyadbhuvanaṃ prajāpatiḥ
iti
athāsya padānāṃ catvāri ca sahasrā triṃśaṃ cāyutāni sapta śatāni pañcāśataṃ
padāni
tadetacchlokenābhigītam
catvāri sahasrā triṃśaṃ cāyutāni sapta śatāni pañcāśataṃ padāni
saṃvatsarasya kavibhi stutasyaitāvatī madhyamā devamātrā
iti

So many are the stars and constellations, so many the lights, so many the suns.
He who knows thus obtains these stars and constellations, obtains the lights, obtains the suns.
Now of its strophic verses there are ninety thousand, three hundred, and ninety-six.
This has been sung in a verse:
"Ninety thousand are its strophic verses, and three hundred, and ninety, and six beside;
praised together with them, Prajāpati goes shining forth through the past and future world."
So it is.
Now of its words there are four thousand, thirty ten-thousands [three hundred thousand], seven hundred, and fifty words.
This has been sung in a verse:
"Four thousand, thirty ten-thousands, seven hundred, and fifty words
belong to the year praised by the wise poets; such is the intermediate divine measure."
So it is.

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athāsyākṣarāṇāmayutamekaṃ prayutāni ṣaṣṭirniyute dve nava cākṣarāṇi sapta

Now of its syllables: one ten-thousand, sixty hundred-thousands, two millions, and nine syllables, seven

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sahasrāṇi daśato daśa

thousand, and ten times ten.

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tadetacchlokenābhigītam

This has been sung in a verse:

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ayutamekaṃ prayutāni ṣaṣṭirniyute dve nava cākṣarāṇi

"One ten-thousand, sixty hundred-thousands, two millions, and nine syllables,

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sapta sahasrāṇi daśato daśaitāvānātmā paramaḥ prajāpateḥ

seven thousand, and ten times ten: such is the supreme self of Prajāpati."

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iti

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tadetadanantaṃ yatsaṃkhyānam

This computation is endless.

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tadetadamṛtaṃ yatsaṃkhyānam

This computation is immortal.

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sa eṣa sukṛtasso yatsaṃkhyānam

This computation belongs to the well-done [world].

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atha yadasaṃkhyānaṃ martyaṃ tat

Now what is without computation is mortal.

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tasmādu sameva cakṣīta

Therefore one should consider it as equal.

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sā haiṣā devānāṃ senā yatsaṃkhyānam

This computation is the army of the gods.

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manuṣyasenayā vāva nu taṃ stṛṇute yaṃ tistīrṣate

With an army of men one lays low him whom one wishes to lay low.

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tādṛgiha taṃ stṛṇavātai yaṃ devasenayā tistīrṣātā iti

"In such a way here may one lay low him whom one wishes to lay low with an army of gods," [so it is said].