Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.339

2-8.339

tadanyasyānanuyānā bhavanti
vajro ha khalu vā eṣa yatpañcadaśarātraḥ
pañcadaśarātreṇa vai vajreṇa devā asurānabhyabhavan
te ye pāpmagṛhītā iva manyeraṃsta etameva pañcadaśarātramupeyuḥ
pañcadaśarātreṇaiva vajreṇa dviṣantaṃ pāpmānaṃ bhrātṛvyamabhibhūyottiṣṭhanti
tadu hovāca yāmano bhrātalāyano yāmahaṃ sarasvatīṃ pañcadaśarātreṇa vajreṇājayaṃ
kastasyāmudanyo'vasātumarhati
vajreṇa vā ahametāmajayam
durapajayyaṃ vai vajrajitamiti
tā vā etā rātrayassaṃpadyante virājaṃ ca gāyatrīṃ ca
ete ha khalu vai chandasāṃ vīryavattame yadvirāṭca gāyatrī ca
te ye chandasāṃ vīryavattame tayorṛdhnavāma tayoḥ pratitiṣṭhāma tābhyāṃ na
stutamasaditi
upo virājaṃ gacchanti
tadu virājo'nnādyasyaiśvaryamādhipatyaṃ gacchanti
ekonā virāḍūnaṃ tatstriyai yatassā prajāyate teno prajananam
vaiśvānaraḥ prāyaṇīyo'tirātro bhavati
vaiśvānaraprāyaṇā hyahīnāssomāḥ

Thus they become not following behind another. / A thunderbolt, indeed, is this fifteen-night rite. / By the fifteen-night rite as a thunderbolt, indeed, the gods overcame the Asuras. / Those who consider themselves, as it were, seized by evil, let them undertake precisely this fifteen-night rite. / Having overcome evil, the enemy, by the fifteen-night rite as a thunderbolt, they rise up. / And concerning this, Yāmana Bhrātalāyana said: 'The Sarasvatī which I conquered by the fifteen-night rite as a thunderbolt—who else is entitled to settle upon it? / With a thunderbolt, indeed, I conquered it; / difficult to reconquer, indeed, is what has been conquered by a thunderbolt.' / Now, these nights amount to the Virāj and the Gāyatrī. / These two, indeed, are the most vigorous of the meters: namely, the Virāj and the Gāyatrī. / Thinking, 'Those two which are the most vigorous among the meters, in them may we prosper, in them may we find support; with them let it not be un-praised,' [they perform it]. / They reach the Virāj. / Thereby they attain lordship and sovereign rule over the food of the Virāj. / The Virāj deficient by one [syllable]—deficient is that part of a woman from which she gives birth; thereby comes procreation. / The introductory Atirātra is sacred to Vaiśvānara; for non-soma-sacrificial periods have their beginning in Vaiśvānara.