Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.404
Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-8.404
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2-8.404
saptāśītirmahāvratasya stotryā bhavanti trayodaśa parimādaḥ
tacchatam
śatāyurvai puruṣaśśatendriyaśśatavīryastasyaivendriyasya vīryasyāvaruddhyai
athaitā vācaḥ pravadanti
kṣudrāḥ parimādaḥ karkarī cālābuśca vakrā ca kapiśīrṣṇī caiṣīkī
cāpāghāṭalīkā ca vīṇā ca kaśyapī ca bhūmidundubhiścārṣabheṇa
carmaṇābhivihato vāṇaśca śatatantrīḥ
antarikṣe dundubhayo vitatā vadanti
adhikumbhāḥ paryāyanti
etā vācaḥ pravadanti sarvasyai vāco'varuddhyai kṛtsnāyai vācaḥ kṛtsnāṃ
vācamavaruṇadhāmahā iti
tadyadbhūmidundubhirārṣabheṇa carmaṇābhivihato vadati paramā vā ṛṣabho
vākparamasyā eva vāco'varuddhyai
antarikṣe dundubhayo vitatā vadanti yaivāntarikṣe vāktāmeva tenāvarundhate
adhikumbhāḥ paryāyantyetadvai pratyakṣaṃ divo rūpaṃ yanmūrdhā yaivāmuṣyāṃ vāktāmeva
tenāvarundhate
vāṇaṃ śatatantrīmāghnanti śatāyurvai puruṣaśśatendriyaśśatavīryastasyaivendriyasya
vīryasyāvaruddhyai
Eighty-seven are the verses to be chanted of the Mahāvrata, thirteen are the parimāds. / That is a hundred. / Man has a life of a hundred years, a hundred faculties, a hundred vital powers; [it is] for the attainment of that very faculty and vital power. / Then they utter these voices: / the minor parimāds, the karkarī-lute, the gourd-lute, the bent lute, the monkey-headed lute, the reed-pipe, the apāghātalīkā, the vīṇā, the tortoise-lute, the earth-drum struck with a bull's hide, and the hundred-stringed vāṇa-harp. / Drums stretched in the mid-air sound. / Women with water-jars on their heads walk around. / They utter these voices for the attainment of all voice, of the whole voice, thinking: 'May we obtain the whole voice.' / When the earth-drum struck with a bull's hide sounds, the bull is the highest voice; [it is] for the attainment of the highest voice. / Drums stretched in the mid-air sound; whatever voice is in the mid-air, that very voice they attain thereby. / Women with water-jars on their heads walk around; this is the visible form of the sky, namely, the head; whatever voice is in yonder [sky], that very voice they attain thereby. / They strike the hundred-stringed vāṇa-harp; man has a life of a hundred years, a hundred faculties, a hundred vital powers; [it is] for the attainment of that very faculty and vital power.
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māgadhaṃ ca puṃścalūṃ ca dakṣiṇe vedyante mithunīkārayanti mithunatvāya prajananāya
They cause a Māgadha and a harlot to copulate on the southern edge of the altar for pairing, for procreation.
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pra mithunena jāyate ya evaṃ veda
He who knows this is procreated through a pair.
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āryaṃ ca varṇaṃ śaudraṃ coparyupari cātvālaṃ bastājine vyāyamayantyārṣabhe vā
They make an Ārya and a Śūdra struggle over a goatskin or over a bull's hide,
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carmaṇi
above the cātvāla trench.
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tayorantarvedyāryo varṇo bhavati bahirvedi śaudraḥ
Of the two, the Ārya is inside the altar, the Śūdra outside the altar.
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tayorāryeṇa varṇena śaudraṃ varṇaṃ jyāpayanti
Of the two, they cause the Ārya to conquer the Śūdra.
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devāśca vā asurāścāmuṣminnāditye'spardhanta
The gods and the asuras contended over yonder sun.
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taṃ devā asurāṇāmavṛñjata
The gods wrested it from the asuras.
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