Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 21.128

21.128

tadasmai sahasramadadāt
tenāyajata
etadvai taccyavano bhārgava etena sāmnā stutvā punaryuvābhavat | kumārīṃ
jāyāmavindata | sahasreṇāyajata
ete vā etasminsāmankāmā | etāneva kāmānavarunddhe
yatkāma evaitena sāmnā stute | samasmai sa kāma ṛdhyate
atho ha smaitenaiva sāmnā cyavano bhārgavo yadyadaśanaṃ cakame tattaddha sma
sarasvatyai śaiśavādudacati
tadvannādyasyāvaruddhissāma
avānnādyaṃ runddhe'nnāda śreṣṭha svānāṃ bhavati ya evaṃ veda
yadu cyavano bhārgavo'paśyattasmāccyāvanamityākhyāyate
prāṇā śiśurmahīnām
iti paśurūpamevaitadupāgacchanti
paśūnāṃ vai śiśurbhavati
tāsu krośaṃ | bhrātṛvyahā sendraṃ sāma
hanti dviṣantaṃ bhrātṛvyamāsyendro havaṃ gacchati ya evaṃ veda
tadaiḷe bhavati paśavo vā iḷā
paśava etadahaḥ paśunāmevāvaruddhayi

He gave him a thousand [cows] for that. / With that he sacrificed. / It was just that: Cyavana Bhārgava, having praised with this sāman, became young again, gained a maiden as wife, and sacrificed with a thousand. / These indeed are the desires in this sāman; he secures these very desires. / Whatever desire one has when praising with this sāman, that desire succeeds for him. / And by this very sāman, whatever food Cyavana Bhārgava desired, that he drew up from the youthful pond of the Sarasvatī. / That is the sāman for securing food. / One who knows thus secures food and becomes an eater of food, the best of his own [people]. / And because Cyavana Bhārgava saw it, therefore it is called Cyāvana. / 'Life-breath, the infant of the great ones'— / with this they attain the form of cattle. / An infant belongs indeed to cattle. / On these [verses] is the Krośa; it is a sāman that kills rivals and possesses Indra. / One who knows thus slays his hateful rival, and Indra comes to his call. / It is on [verses containing] iḷā. Cattle indeed are iḷā. / Cattle are this day; it is for securing cattle.

21.128.p1

pavasva vājasātaya

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iti vājavatīranuṣṭubho bhavantyannaṃ vai vājo'nnādyasyaivāvaruddhyai pavitre dhārayā sutaḥ indrāya soma viṣṇave devebhyo madhumattamaḥ iti vaiṣṇavyo bhavanti yajño vai viṣṇuryajñasyaivārambhāya tāsu gaurivītamuktabrāhmaṇam

'Flow forth for the winning of prize'— / thus there are Anuṣṭubh verses containing the word vāja ('prize'). Food indeed is prize; [it is] for securing food. / 'Pressed with a stream through the purifier, / for Indra, O Soma, for Viṣṇu, most honeyed for the gods'— / thus there are verses addressed to Viṣṇu. The sacrifice indeed is Viṣṇu; [it is] for the undertaking of the sacrifice itself.