Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.418
Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-8.418
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2-8.418
yadvāvādo daśamamahastadevokthāni
iyamadhiruhyaivetyāhuḥ
antarikṣasācyeva vai śrīḥ
evaṃ śriyā upāptiriti
vāṇaśśatatantrīrbhavati
śatāyurvai puruṣaśśatendriyaśśatavīryastasyaivendriyasya vīryasyāvaruddhyai
tadāhurna vāṇaśśatatantrīḥ kāryo yarhi vā etasya
brāhmaṇāssantānamavidussakṛtsantato vā eṣa tarhi rājñāṃ sabhāsu praviśāmi
bruvannaśayattaṃ kiṃ tatkuryuryastathaitarhi na yathā pureti
tadu vā āhuḥ kiṃ khalu tathaitarhi yathā purā
ekasāmnā ha sma vai purā stutvā svargaṃ lokaṃ gacchantyatho avabhṛthādevodetya
kāryaḥ
evaṃ vāṇaśśatatantrīrvācaḥ kṛtsnatvāyeti
tasyaiṣa santāno bhūrbhuva svarvadā vadā vadā vadī vadā vadoruḥ
pṛthussugassugantuḥ karmaḥ karaṇaḥ karaḥ kariṣyannaindrīṃ vācaṃ bṛhatīṃ viśvarūpāṃ
śatāyuṣaṃ pravada deva vāṇeti
athendreṇatayā ceṣīkayā vetasaśākhayā collikhati mano jyotiriti
vāksatyamiti mano bhadra iti
Whatever is that tenth day yonder, that consists of ukthas. They say: 'It must be mounted indeed. Fortune indeed belongs to the mid-space. Thus is the attainment of fortune.' There is a hundred-stringed harp. A man has a life of a hundred [years], a hundred faculties, a hundred vital powers; [it is] for the securing of that very faculty and vital power. Regarding this they say: 'The hundred-stringed harp should not be made. When the Brahmins knew the continuous sequence of this, then this one, having once joined it, lay saying in the assemblies of kings: "I enter!" What should they do then to him who is not now as formerly?' But on that they also say: 'Why indeed should it not be now as formerly? Formerly, having praised with a single sāman, they used to go to the heavenly world. Moreover, having come up from the purificatory bath, it should be made. Thus the hundred-stringed harp is for the wholeness of speech.' Its continuous sequence is this: 'Bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ! Speak, speak, speak, speak, speak, speak! Wide, broad, easy of path, easy of access, active, making, making, about to make! Indra's speech, great, multiform, bestowing a hundred-year lifespan, utter forth, divine harp!' Then he scratches it with an arrow-reed and with a willow-branch, saying: 'Mind is light', 'Speech is truth', 'Mind is auspicious.'
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ahīnasaṃ hāśvatthiṃ putrā upasametyocussatrāyāmo vai bhagavo'nu naśśādhīti
His sons approached Ahīnas Āśvatthi and said: 'Reverend sir, we are undertaking a sacrificial session; instruct us!'
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sa hovāca maivaṃ vocata
He said: 'Do not speak thus!
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durupadharṣo vai saṃvatsaraḥ
Difficult to overcome indeed is the year.
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yathā vai rathanābhāvarāḥ pratiṣṭhitā evaṃ vai saṃvatsare sarve mṛtyavaḥ pratiṣṭhitāḥ
Just as spokes are fixed in the navel of a chariot wheel, so all deaths are fixed in the year.
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athaitadevaṃ brūtheti
And yet you say this!'
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te hocusteṣāṃ vai tvameva bhiṣagasi tvaṃ prāyaścittiranveva naśśādhīti
They said: 'You alone are our physician, you are our expiation; do instruct us!'
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taddhāsya priyamāsa
This was pleasing to him.
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sa hovācaivaṃ cedbrūtha ṣaṭsu sma pratiṣṭhāsu pratitiṣṭhata
He said: 'If you speak thus, establish yourselves on the six supports.'
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