Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2.286
Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2.286
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2.286
tāmabravīnnamaste'stu kiṃkāmā mābhividhyasīti
pradānaṃ me prayacchetyabravīt
tasyai dvādaśākṣaraṃ padaṃ prāyacchat
semāmeva gāyatrīṃ punarupapalyāyata
tāmabravīdyatte pradānaṃ prādāṃ kimu nvevecchasīti
sarvameva ma ātmānaṃ prayacchetyabravīd
atha kimu me bhaviṣyatīti
samānaṃ nāvannādyaṃ bhaviṣyati purastvā dhāsya iti
tatheti
tāṃ puro'dhatta
tasyai sarvamātmānaṃ prāyacchat
tadyadgāyatrī sarvamātmānaṃ prāyacchattasmādbrāhmaṇaḥ sarveṇātmanā kṣatriyamabhyeti
atho yajjagatī na sarvamivātmānaṃ prāyacchattasmādu kṣatrādviḍapakrāmamiva carati
yāṃ yāṃ eva tāṃ gāyatrī ca jagatī ca saṃprāyacchatāṃ saivaiṣā bṛhatyabhavat
tasmādbṛhatyai trīṇi cāṣṭākṣarāṇi padāni dvādaśākṣaraṃ ca
saiṣā gāyatrī prathamato yujate uccā te jātamandhasā iti
eṣā purohitāvasāne
vindate purodhāṃ vā purodhāmātraṃ vā ya evaṃ veda
She said to it: 'Homage to you! Desiring what do you pierce me?' It said: 'Give me a gift.' She gave it a twelve-syllable pāda. It crept back again toward this very gāyatrī. She said to it: 'Since I have given you a gift, what indeed do you still desire?' It said: 'Give me your entire self.' 'Then what will be [mine]?' 'Our food will be common; I shall place you in front.' 'So be it.' It placed her in front. She gave it her entire self. Because the gāyatrī gave its entire self, therefore the Brahmin approaches the Kṣatriya with his entire self. And because the jagatī did not quite give its entire self, therefore the peasantry behaves as if departing from nobility. Whatever [portions] the gāyatrī and the jagatī gave to it, that became this bṛhatī. Therefore the bṛhatī has three eight-syllable pādas and one twelve-syllable [pāda]. This gāyatrī is joined first: 'High [born] is your juice from the plant...' It is placed in front at the end. Whoever knows thus obtains the office of domestic priest, or the measure of a domestic priest.
2.286.p1
atha bṛhatyatha triṣṭup
Then the bṛhatī, then the triṣṭubh.
2.286.p2
tadetadbrahmaṇā ca kṣatreṇa cobhayato'nnādyaṃ parigṛhītam
Thus this food is encompassed on both sides by the priesthood and the nobility.
2.286.p3
brahmaṇā ca ha vā enaṃ kṣatreṇa cobhayato'nnādyaṃ parigṛhītamupatiṣṭhate ya evaṃ veda
Food encompassed on both sides by the priesthood and the nobility waits upon him who knows thus.
2.286.p4
tasmādbrāhmaṇena kṣatriyāya na drogdhavyaṃ na kṣatriyeṇa brāhmaṇāya
Therefore a Brahmin must not plot against a Kṣatriya, nor a Kṣatriya against a Brahmin.
2.286.p5
samānaṃ hyenayorannādyam
For their food is common.
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