Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.385

It has a twelve-syllable finale. Twelve months are a year. They proceed standing firmly in the months, in the year. Now they say: 'Indeed, those who undertake these continuous six-day periods fall from this world. They should make [a sāman] with the finale oka on the sixth day. This world is indeed man's home (oka). It is in this world that they thus firmly stand.' They also call it 'the harnessing of two sent forth.' Day and night are indeed two sent forth, for these two move along as if sent forth. And indeed, the six-day periods become as if severed when they reach the sixth day. Just as one would harness a horse with a harness, in the same way, by means of this sāman, they proceed harnessing the six-day periods. Regarding this they say: 'Should the one with the oka-finale be performed in the pṛṣṭhya six-day period, or not?' He should say: 'No.' These six-day periods have this as their beginning and this as their end, namely the pṛṣṭhya [six-day period]. It is him that they wish to reach by this, by the Abhīvarta, by the Plava, by the Sujñāna. If they were to perform this here, it would be like repeated application. Therefore, it should not be performed here.",
"id": 2,
"en": "Svarbhānu, the Asura, pierced the sun with darkness.",
"id": 3,
"en": "The gods and the ṛṣis healed him.",
"id": 4,
"en": "They saw these Svarasāmā days.",
"id": 5,
"en": "By means of them they rescued (aspṛṇvan) him.",
"id": 6,
"en": "Because they rescued him, that is the nature of the Svarasāmā days (svarasāmatva).",
"id": 7,
"en": "Because these Svarasāmā days are performed, they thereby rescue Āditya.",
"id": 8,
"en": "Just as man acts toward the gods, so the gods act toward him.",
"id": 9,
"en": "Because these Svarasāmā days are performed, they thereby rescue themselves.",
"id": 10,
"en": "The Svarasāmā days have seventeen-verse stomas; the Viṣuvant has a twenty-one-verse stoma. Prajāpati is seventeenfold; yonder Āditya is twenty-one-fold. Thus with the father they encircle the son. For the father is dearest to the son, the son is dearest to the father. If they were to introduce another stoma here, yonder one would burn him with his splendor; Agni Vaiśvānara would take away the creatures. There are these six Svarasāmā days. There are six seasons. It is upon the seasons that they place him; therefore this one goes south for three seasons and north for three seasons. As a son moves about among his fathers, just so is this, for non-monotony; for a son moves about among his fathers without monotony. Now these two, Viśvajit and Abhijit, on both sides, are the vital power of the stomas. With vital power these two hold the Viṣuvant. Regarding this they say: 'The stomas proceed as if broken (stomakṛntatra) when they proceed from the thirty-three-verse [stoma] to the seventeen-verse [stoma]. Having undertaken the Abhijit before the pṛṣṭhya six-day period, they should shift that seventeen-verse day which is in the middle of the pṛṣṭhya six-day period above the thirty-three-verse [stoma].' That they proceed from the seventeen-verse [stoma] to the seventeen-verse [stoma], from equal to equal, the stomas do not go to a fracture; they do not suffer distress.",
"id": 11,
"en": "Regarding this they say: 'The pṛṣṭhya six-day period is the self; the seventeen-verse [stoma] is food.'",
"id": 12,
"en": "'If they were to remove the seventeen-verse [stoma] from the pṛṣṭhya six-day period, they would put food outside; they would become hungry.'",
"id": 13,
"en": "'One should proceed from the thirty-three-verse [stoma] itself.'",
"id": 14,
"en": "The thirty-three are all the deities.",
"id": 15,
"en": "And indeed, when all the deities come together, they may reach Prajāpati, or they may not.",
"id": 16,
"en": "Then they proceed from equal to equal.",
"id": 17,
"en": "Or from summit to summit.",
"id": 18,
"en": "For the father is the summit.",
"id": 19,
"en": "Moreover, it is an ascent.",
"id": 20,
"en": "For the father is better than the son.",
"id": 21,
"en": "They are Ukthya [days]; cattle are ukthas, for the obtainment of cattle. Regarding this they say: 'The sacrifice is performed inversely, as it were, when the Abhijit and Viśvajit are Agniṣṭomas, the Viṣuvant is an Agniṣṭoma, and the Svarasāmā days are Ukthyas. All should be made Agniṣṭomas.' The Agniṣṭoma is a summit; the Viṣuvant is a summit. Thus with a summit they connect a summit; with a summit they ascend a summit. The Agniṣṭoma is splendor; the Viṣuvant is splendor; thus with splendor they connect splendor; with splendor they ascend splendor. Now the Kāmyakīyas, sacrificers of a sacrificial session whose householder was Ayasthūṇa, sat for a sacrificial session. Indradyumna Bhāllabeya rushed up to them, [thinking:] 'I will make my son chant during the Viṣuvant.' He arrived when the pṛṣṭhya six-day period had been chanted up to one day. He said: 'You have done well in chanting. But had I been here, I would have arranged the Viṣuvant differently from this.' 'How, venerable sir, would you have arranged it?' the son said to him. He said: 'Having undertaken the Abhijit before the pṛṣṭhya six-day period, I would have proceeded to the Svarasāmā days directly from the pṛṣṭhya six-day period.'",
"id": 22,
"en": "'The pṛṣṭhya six-day period is the self; the Svarasāmā days are offspring.'",
"id": 23,
"en": "'Offspring goes away from us.'",
"id": 24,
"en": "'We here are speech.'",
"id": 25,
"en": "'Speech goes away from us.'",
"id": 26,
"en": "'In that this Abhijit comes in between, standing thus, it conceals propagation.'",
"id": 27,
"en": "'In that they move it before the pṛṣṭhya six-day period, [it is with the thought:] "May we propagate from unconcealed propagation."'",
"id": 28,
"en": "'And they are seventeen-verse [days].'",
"id": 29,
"en": "'Prajāpati is seventeenfold. Prajāpati is the progenitor of offspring. [Thinking:] "With him who is the progenitor of offspring, may we, having been propagated, propagate offspring." And they are in Anuṣṭubh meter. The Anuṣṭubh is speech; speech is propagation. [Thinking:] "May we propagate from the propagation of speech." And they are Ukthyas. Ukthas are cattle; cattle are food. [Thinking:] "Lest we separate offspring from cattle, from food."'
Regarding that, Śāṭyāyani said, disregarding Bhāllabeya's statement: 'One should proceed only from the Abhijit. The pṛṣṭhya six-day period is indeed the Abhijit. In respect of abode, the stomas of the pṛṣṭhya six-day period are these very ones. There is one seventeen-verse [stoma] in the pṛṣṭhya six-day period. But here there are three seventeen-verse [stomas]. Having made this very stoma, they propagate it. In that from a seventeen-verse [stoma] they propagate a seventeen-verse [stoma], from a seventeen-verse [stoma] a seventeen-verse [stoma], from a seventeen-verse [stoma] a seventeen-verse [stoma]. And on the other side, in the Viśvajit, there are three seventeen-verse [stomas]. Both of them, coming together, propagate. Indeed, in them is the firm foundation. One should proceed only from the Abhijit.'",
"id": 30,
"en": "The Viṣuvant has a twenty-one-verse stoma.",
"id": 31,
"en": "The Viṣuvant is the twenty-first of this world.",
"id": 32,
"en": "Twelve months, five seasons, these three worlds, and yonder Āditya is the twenty-first.",
"id": 33,
"en": "He is firmly established over all this.",
"id": 34,
"en": "[Thinking:] 'In whatever all this he is firmly established, in all that may we be firmly established.'",
"id": 35,
"en": "Therefore, an Anuṣṭubh verse addressed to Vāyu is the opening verse.",
"id": 36,
"en": "For speech and Vāyu have reached him among the deities.",
"id": 37,
"en": "[Thinking:] 'By means of those two who among the deities have reached him, may we reach him.'"
],
"glossary": [
{
"term": "nidhana",
"en": "finale"
},
{
"term": "svarasāman",
"en": "Svarasāmā day"
},
{
"term": "viṣuvant",
"en": "Viṣuvant"
},
{
"term": "stomakṛntatra",
"en": "breaking of stomas"
},
{
"term": "varṣman",
"en": "summit"
},
{
"term": "sattrin",
"en": "sacrificer of a sacrificial session"
},
{
"term": "pratipad",
"en": "opening verse"
},
{
"term": "abhijit",
"en": "Abhijit"
}
]
}

Svarbhānu, the Asura, pierced Āditya with darkness.

The gods and the ṛṣis healed him.

They saw these Svarasāmans.

With them they rescued him.

Because they rescued [aspṛṇvan] him, that is the essence of the Svaras [svaratva].

Therefore, when these Svarasāmans take place, it is Āditya himself that they rescue with them.

In whatever way a human acts towards the gods, in such a way the gods act towards him.

Therefore, when these Svarasāmans take place, it is themselves that they rescue with them.