Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 32.196

The Chandoma days are cattle; [it is] just for the acquisition of cattle. / Now these two-footed verses have their brāhmaṇa already stated. / These are they: / 'The courser has flowed forth,' / so [the verses] contain the word 'pra' ('forth'). / Thus they attain the form of the introductory rite; for this day is an introductory rite. / On them [is sung] the Sauhaviṣa [sāman]. / The gods, having slain the Asuras, considered themselves as if impure, unfit for sacrifice. / They desired: 'May we become pure, fit for sacrifice.' / They saw this sāman. / With it they praised. / Then indeed they became pure and fit for sacrifice. / They said: 'We have become possessors of good offerings.' / That is the good-offering-nature of the Sauhaviṣa. / Pure and fit for sacrifice becomes he who knows this. / 'Which Somas from afar,' / for at that time the sacrifice had gone, as it were, afar.

On them [is sung] the Jarābodhīya [sāman].

The Śāktyas, using fresh meat as sacrificial cake, were holding a sacrificial session.

Gaurīvīti Śāktya killed a deer.

Tārkṣya Suparṇa swooped down upon him from above.

He aimed [an arrow] against him.

He said to him: 'O sage, do not shoot at me!

Whatever desire you have, that desire of yours we will fulfill.'

He said: 'What desire indeed do I have?'

'You desire the daughter of Asita Dhāmnya.

To her I will carry you down.'

Now Asita Dhāmnya was jealous.

He had a mansion in the intermediate space.

There they guarded his daughter.

Hiding him in the hollow shaft of a wing, he carried him down to this maiden; with this very sāman he would awaken him in the morning:

'Paramour, awake!'

That is the awake-paramour-nature of the Jarābodhīya.

This maiden conceived an embryo.

A boy was born.

The Asuras, cutting him into pieces and throwing him away, said: 'This is the embryo of an incestuous sister, or a Rakṣas has been born here.'