Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.329
Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-8.329
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2-8.329
tena haitena jabālamāruṇiryājayāṃ cakāra
sa ha trayāṇāṃ nigṛdhnānānāṃ purodhāṃ jagāma kāśyasya kausalyasyaikṣvākasyeti
tasya ha śrīrāsa kalyāṇī
tasya ha sma tacchriyaṃ dṛṣṭvā śvetaketuḥ pitrā vivadate palita yajñakāma
anyāneva śriyā yaśasā samañjaṃścarasi nātmānamiti
neti ha smāha
mā mā putraka vocaḥ
yajñakratureva me vijñāta āsa
taṃ pāpaka iva brahmabandhuke vyajijñāse
sa kila tahaivāsa yathā ma enamanūcuḥ
tato vā atitarāmiva
sa vā eṣa yajño mṛtyoreva nikṛtiḥ
devā vai mṛtyorabibhayurya svarge loke
tasmātte prajāpatimevopādhāvan
tebhya etaṃ daśarātraṃ yajñaṃ vyadadhāt
tamāharan
tenāyajanta
With this very [rite] Āruṇi made Jabāla sacrifice. He attained the office of domestic priest to three competing [kings]: the Kāśya, the Kausalya, and the Aikṣvāka. He possessed auspicious prosperity. Seeing that prosperity of his, Śvetaketu argued with his father: ‘Gray-haired one, desirous of sacrifice, you go about endowing only others with prosperity and renown, not yourself!’ He said: ‘Do not, do not speak [so] to me, my dear son! Only the sacrificial rite was understood by me. I sought to understand it in a low-born pseudo-Brahmin, as it were. That was indeed just as they taught it to me, or even far beyond that. This sacrifice is indeed the outwitting of Death. The gods who were in the heavenly world were afraid of Death. Therefore they ran to Prajāpati. For them he arranged this ten-day sacrifice. They took it; with it they sacrificed.’
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te trivṛtāstuvata
They chanted with the trivṛt [stoma].
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trivṛta vai stuvata iti mṛtyuḥ pañcadaśamabhiparyetyātiṣṭhadidamata eṣyantīti
Thinking, ‘They are chanting with the trivṛt,’ Death went over and stood by the fifteen-fold [stoma], [thinking], ‘They will come here next.’
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taṃ pañcadaśe'nvāgacchan
They came after him in the fifteen-fold [stoma].
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taṃ tata udarundhan
They drove him away from there.
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sa saptadaśamabhyudakrāmat
He stepped up to the seventeen-fold [stoma].
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