Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-7.259-2

2-7.259-2

athāsyā etatpṛśni śabalaṃ padaṃ yadrātriḥ
sa yo hāsya etatpṛśni śabalaṃ padaṃ veda pṛśnireva prajayā paśubhi śriyā
kīrtyāyuṣā bhavati
tadyathāgniṃ dīpyamānamupavājanenopavājayedevamevaitadbrāhmaṇa ātmānaṃ saṃśyate
satyaṃ vadan
sa satyameva vadetsatyaṃ caretsatyaṃ cikīrṣetsatyameva bhavati
uta tvenamanṛtasya kāmo vindejjīvanakāmyā vā strīkāmyā vā narmakāmyā
vā sakhikāmyā vā
rātryāṃ vā hainacchāyāyāṃ vā vadet
tathā hainaṃ tanna druṇītedruṇāti
sve hyenadāyatane vadati
pṛthvī bekura iti
heti hesinī parimanthāditye manaste bhuvo yuvaste yajñasyājyamasi
dhīṣṇastvṛtusthā manasthā manaso grāmasyāmāviśanābhṛtte'smi rantirasi
ramatirasīme svargasya ūrjasvatī payasvatī śabalyehyarābhurasmi sikatāḥ
puromi vatsā bibharmi sahasramātaraṃ vidma tvā puruṣa tallaka sa na idaṃ brūhi
yathedaṃ bhaviṣyati

Now, its multicolored, dappled foot is what the night is. Whoever knows this multicolored, dappled foot of his becomes multifaceted in offspring, cattle, prosperity, fame, and life. Just as one would fan a blazing fire with a fan, so a Brahmin sharpens himself when speaking the truth. He should speak only truth, practice truth, intend truth: he becomes truth itself. And even if a desire for untruth should seize him—either from desire for life, or desire for a woman, or desire for jest, or desire for a friend—he should speak it either at night or in the shade. Thus it does not injure him. For he speaks it in its own realm. "O wide Bekurā..." [The formula continues:] "He, O hesitating one! From the churning, in the sun, your mind; you have become, you have united; you are the clarified butter of the sacrifice; standing on the hearth, standing in the season, standing in the mind; you have entered into the village of the mind; I have brought you; you are delight, you are pleasure; these two are heaven's vigorous, milk-yielding, dappled ones; come, I am ready; I scatter sand before you, I carry calves, the mother of a thousand; we know you, O tall man; tell us this, how it will be!"