Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 58.344

58.344

anvīkṣamāṇā evātiṣṭhannasau rocate'sau rocateti
sāsya rocanatā
sa ṣakṣata pāpmā vā asmi yo'śanayā asmi
hantordhva evotkrāmāṇīti
sa mṛtyumevaitasmim̐lloke pratinidhāya caturviśanordhva udakrāmat
so'gacchadyatraiṣa rocano nāma lokaḥ
tattadaśanayābhavat
tamaśanāyāṃ bhūtaṃ bibhyatīrnānvāyan
anvīkṣamāṇā evātiṣṭhannasau rocate'sau rocateti
sāsya rocanatā
sa ṣakṣata pāpmā vā asmi yo'śanayā asmi
hantordhva evotkrāmāṇīti
so'horātre pratinyadadhāt
te eva pipāsā cāśanāyā cābhavatām
aharha pipāsā | rātriraśanāyā
tadyathā dvāraphalake pratinihite syātāmevamevaite'horātre pratinihite
anatyayanāya
te u ha tvevaṃvidamevātyarjayataḥ

They merely stood looking at him: 'Yonder one shines, yonder one shines!' That is his shining quality (rocanatā). He considered: 'I am indeed evil, who am hunger. Come, let me step upward.' Having placed Death as a substitute in this world, he stepped upward with the twenty-four [syllabled meter]. He went to where this world named Rocana is. Then he became hunger. Fearing him who had become hunger, they did not follow after [him]. They merely stood looking at him: 'Yonder one shines, yonder one shines!' That is his shining quality. He considered: 'I am indeed evil, who am hunger. Come, let me step upward.' He set day and night as substitutes. They became thirst and hunger. Day is thirst; night is hunger. Just as two door-leaves might be set in place, in the very same way these two, day and night, were set in place so that none might pass beyond. But they let through only him who knows thus.