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The Ādityas and the Aṅgirases were contending for the heavenly world. They considered: 'Whichever of us shall make the others sacrifice, they will be left behind.' Those Aṅgirases gathered the sacrifice first. For the soma-pressing of the next day, they sent Agni Āṅgirasa as a messenger: 'Announce to these Ādityas our soma-pressing of tomorrow.' Having arrived, he said: 'O Ādityas, the Aṅgirases announce to you the soma-pressing of tomorrow.' They said to him: 'Go away; having deliberated, we shall give you an answer.' Therefore even nowadays they say to a messenger: 'Go away; having deliberated, we shall give you an answer.' They said: 'Devise that whereby the Aṅgirases will make us sacrifice, not we the Aṅgirases. If we make them sacrifice, we shall be left behind; but if we do not make them sacrifice, we shall depart from the glory of the sacrifice.' Therefore one chosen should not walk away, \[thinking:\] 'Lest I depart from the glory of the sacrifice.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.187.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.187.p1) padena hāpeyāt > He should step back with a footprint. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.187.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.187.p2) svaṃ vā yajñamabhyupeyād | idaṃ ca tvayā kṛtamiti vā > Or he should approach his own sacrifice, saying: 'And this has been done by you.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.187.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.187.p3) ta etamādityāssadyaḥkrīyaṃ yajñaṃ samabharan > Those Ādityas gathered this Sadyaḥkrīya sacrifice. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.187.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.187.p4) te'bruvannagne ciraṃ tadyacchva | imāmeva vayaṃ tubhyamadya sutyāṃ prabrūmaḥ > They said: 'O Agni, that which is tomorrow is distant; we announce to you this very pressing today. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.187.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.187.p5) teṣāṃ nastvaṃ hotāsi | gaurāṃgiraso'dhvaryur | bṛhaspatirudgātā ayāsyo > Of us, you shall be the Hotṛ, Gaur Āṅgirasa the Adhvaryu, Bṛhaspati the Udgātṛ, Ayāsya > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.187.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.187.p6) brahmeti sarvānavṛṇata > the Brahman.' Thus they chose all \[of them\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.187.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.187.p7) so'bravīddūto vā ahaṃ carāmīti > He said: 'I am going about as a messenger.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.187.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.187.p8) tamagniṃ dūtaṃ vṛṇīmaha ityeva dūtaṃ carantamavṛṇata > Thinking: 'Agni the messenger we choose,' they chose him as he was going about as a messenger. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.187.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.187.p9) sa eṣāṃ vṛto nāpākrāmat > Having been chosen by them, he did not walk away. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.187.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.187.p10) sa punaretyābravīd | aṅgirasa | ādityā vo'dyasutyāṃ prāhuriti > Having returned, he said: 'O Aṅgirases, the Ādityas announce to you the pressing today.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.187.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.187.p11) tena hātureva no'vṛthā iti > Then \[the Aṅgirases said\]: 'Surely you have chosen us!' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.187.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.187.p12) neti hovāca > 'No,' he said. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.187.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.187.p13) dūto yuṣmākamabhūvaṃ | vṛta evāmīṣāmasmy | ādaha nūnamamī > 'I was your messenger; I am indeed chosen by them. Now indeed those > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.31.187) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.187](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.187) · Pramāṇa