Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 50.272.p1

50.272.p1

athākūpāram
akūpāro vai kaśyapaḥ kalibhissaha samudramabhyavaiṣat
tasminpratiṣṭhāmaicchat
sa etatsāmāpaśyat
tenāstuta
tato vai sa samudre pratiṣṭhāmavindatemāmeva pṛthivīm
tato ha sma vai tasya kalayaḥ pṛṣṭha āsate
tadetatpratiṣṭhāsāma
pratitiṣṭhati ya evaṃ veda
samudro vai chandomāḥ
kaśyapo vai samudramatipārayitumarhati
tadyadatrākūpāraṃ bhavati samudrasyaivātipāraṇāya
yadvakūpāraḥ kaśyapo'paśyat | tasmādākūpāramityākhyāyate
athaitā dvipado bhavantyuktabrāhmaṇāḥ
tā etā bhavanti
pavasva soma mahe dakṣāye
ti
mahaddhyetadaharyadaṣṭācatvāriṃśam

Now the Ākūpāra [sāman]. / Kaśyapa Ākūpāra wished to descend into the ocean together with the Kalis. / In it he sought a firm standing. / He saw this sāman. / With it he praised. / Thereupon he found a firm standing in the ocean, namely this very earth. / Then indeed his Kalis sat upon [his] back. / That is this sāman of firm standing. / He who knows this attains a firm standing. / The ocean indeed is the Chandomas. / Kaśyapa indeed is capable of taking [one] across the ocean. / So when the Ākūpāra is [used] here, it is just for crossing over the ocean. / And because Kaśyapa Ākūpāra saw it, therefore it is called Ākūpāra. / Now there are these two-footed [verses] whose Brāhmaṇa has been explained. / They are these: / 'Clarify yourself, O Soma, for great ability,' / for this day, which is forty-eightfold, is great.