Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.306

2-8.306

- govarṇaḥ khālateyaḥ pāpīyānbhaviṣyati
prathamata eva mukhato'nnādyamadhita
yadā vai mukhamannaṃ prāpnoti tato vāva tatpūyati yadi pragirati pūyati yadi
ṣṭhīvati pūyatyapūpuyadannādyaṃ pāpīyānbhaviṣyatīti
taddha tathaivāsa
sa ha pāpīyānāsa
tasmai hocuryo vai te'yaṃ sva evāntevāsī govarṇaḥ khālateyassa vai
tvānuvyāhārṣīditi
taṃ hovāca sa vai mā tvamanena yajñena yājayeti
tatheti hovāca
taṃ vai tvā yathā rathaṃ vā riṣṭaṃ saṃskuryādano vā evaṃ tvā saṃskariṣyāmīti
tasya ha trivṛdeva prathamamahaścakāra atha pañcadaśamathaikaviṃśamatha triṇavamatha
trayastriṃśamatha saptadaśamatha saptadaśam
dve saptadaśe anūcī
eteno ha govarṇaḥ khālateya ācāryaṃ yājayāṃ cakāra
ātmā vai pṛṣṭhyaṣṣaḍaho'nnaṃ saptadaśaḥ
sa ātmana evādhyūrdhvo'nnādyamabhyutkramiṣyate
tattvopariṣṭādannādyamavaruddhamupasthāsyate saptadaśātsaptadaśamannādannam
abhi te prajānnādī bhaviteti hovāca

—Govarna Khālateya [prophesied]: "He will become worse off.
Right at the beginning he placed food in the mouth.
When food reaches the mouth, it rots right there: whether he swallows, it rots; whether he spits, it rots. He made the food rot; he will become worse off."
And it happened just like that.
He indeed became worse off.
They said to him: "This own pupil of yours, Govarna Khālateya—he indeed prophesied against you."
He said to him: "You, then, sacrifice for me with this sacrifice!"
"So be it," he said.
"Just as one would repair a damaged chariot or a cart, so shall I repair you."
For him he made the first day ninefold, then fifteenfold, then twenty-onefold, then twenty-sevenfold, then thirty-threefold, then seventeenfold, then seventeenfold.
Two seventeenfold [days] following each other.
With this Govarna Khālateya made his teacher sacrifice.
"The pṛṣṭhya six-day period is indeed the body; the seventeenfold is food.
He will step up to food from above the body itself.
And obtained above, food will be at your disposal; from the seventeenfold, from food to food, your offspring will become eaters of food," he said.