Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.307
Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-8.307
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2-8.307
ete bābarayaḥ kuruṣu paṇāyyā eva
sa ha sma taddevayajane paricaratīdamayaja idamu nāyaja iti
atha yasyaitasya jyotirgaurāyuriti tryaho viśvajitsarvapṛṣṭhya
ukthyaṣṣoḍaśimāñchandomapavamānaḥ sarvastoma ukthyaḥ pañcaviṃśaṃ mahāvrataṃ
jyotiratirātro yaḥ kāmayetopetyābhiplavamupetya pṛṣṭhānyupetya chandomānmahāvrataṃ
ma upetaṃ syāditi sa etena yajeta
upetya haivābhiplavamupetya pṛṣṭhānyupetya chandomānmahāvratamasyopetaṃ bhavatyannaṃ vai
mahāvratamannādyasyaivāvaruddhyai
tadāhurna purā saṃvatsarānmahāvratamupetyamiti
tadyatpṛṣṭhyaṣṣaḍaho bhavatyṛtavo vai pṛṣṭhāni
saṃvatsara ṛtavaḥ
saṃvatsaraḥ kṛtsnamannādyaṃ pacati saṃvatsarābhijitameva tadannādyamupayanti
pañcaviṃśaṃ mahāvratamannaṃ vai pañcaviṃśamannādyasyaivāvaruddhyai
jyotiratirātraḥ
etadvai prajñātaṃ devatīrthaṃ yajjyotiratirātraḥ
prajñātena devatīrthenāriṣṭenāriṣṭa udṛcaṃ aśnavā iti
These descendants of Babara are indeed commendable among the Kurus.
He used to walk around at that sacrificial ground, [saying]: "This I sacrificed; this I did not sacrifice."
Now, concerning this [rite] of which there is the three-day period [consisting of] Jyotis, Go, and Āyus; the Viśvajit-Sarvapṛṣṭhya; the Ukthya with the Ṣoḍaśin; the Chandoma-Pavamāna; the all-stoma Ukthya; the twenty-fivefold Mahāvrata; and the Jyotir-Atirātra: whoever should desire, "Having undertaken the Abhiplava, having undertaken the Pṛṣṭhas, having undertaken the Chandomas, may the Mahāvrata be undertaken by me," he should sacrifice with this.
Having undertaken the Abhiplava, having undertaken the Pṛṣṭhas, having undertaken the Chandomas, the Mahāvrata is undertaken by him. Food, indeed, is the Mahāvrata, for the obtaining of food.
Regarding this they say: "The Mahāvrata should not be undertaken before a year."
As to why there is the pṛṣṭhya six-day period: the pṛṣṭhas are the seasons;
the seasons are the year.
The year ripens all food; they approach that food as won by the year.
The twenty-fivefold Mahāvrata: the twenty-fivefold is indeed food, for the obtaining of food.
The Jyotir-Atirātra [is the concluding day].
This is indeed the known ford of the gods, namely the Jyotir-Atirātra.
"By the known ford of the gods, unharmed, I shall unharmed attain the completion," [he thinks].
2-8.307.p1
pṛṣṭhyaṣṣaḍaho'tha yatsaptamamahastasya caturviṃśaṃ bahiṣpavamānaṃ
There is the pṛṣṭhya six-day period; then as to what the seventh day is: its Bahiṣpavamāna is twenty-fourfold;
2-8.307.p2
trayastriṃśānyuttarāṇi stotrāṇi pañcaviṃśaṃ mahāvrataṃ catustriṃśamagniṣṭomasāma
the subsequent stotras are thirty-threefold; the Mahāvrata is twenty-fivefold; the Agniṣṭoma-sāman is thirty-fourfold.
2-8.307.p3
āpyata iva vā etadyajño yadeṣa pṛṣṭhyaṣṣaḍaha āpyata iti
The sacrifice, as it were, is exhausted when this pṛṣṭhya six-day period is exhausted.
2-8.307.p4
tadyatsaptamasyāhnaścaturviṃśaṃ bahiṣpavamānaṃ bhavati caturviṃśatyardhamāsassaṃvatsaraḥ
As to why the Bahiṣpavamāna of the seventh day is twenty-fourfold: twenty-four half-months are the year;
2-8.307.p5
saṃvatsaro yajño yajñamevaitadyajñamukha ārabhante
the year is the sacrifice; it is the sacrifice itself that they take hold of at the opening of the sacrifice.
2-8.307.p6
atho caturviṃśatyakṣarā vai gāyatrī
Moreover, the Gāyatrī has twenty-four syllables.
2-8.307.p7
gāyatryo vā āptaṃ yajñakratuṃ punastanvate
By Gāyatrī verses they spread out again the exhausted sacrificial rite.
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