Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 7.23

7.23

atha yauktāśvaṃ pariṣṭobhavadbahirnidhanaṃ bārhatam
tasmādbārhate'hankriyate
vasiṣṭho vai sudāsaḥ paijavanasyaikṣvākasya rājñaḥ purohita āsa
sa sudāḥ paijavano vasiṣṭhe vaḷavānnyadhatta yathā purohite nidadhate tathā
vasiṣṭhassaniṃ prayannabravīdyuktāśvaṃ kanīyāṃsaṃ bhrātarameteṣāṃ no bhāryāṇāmadhyakṣaḥ
syā iti
sa yuktāśvo rājavaḷavānāṃ śiśūñjātānviparyaharat
ye kalyāṇā āsaṃstānātmane'kṛta
ye pāpīyāṃsastānrājavaḷavāsu
te tadanvabudhyanta śiśūnha jātānviparyahārṣīditi
tamabādhanta --steno'syanṛṣiriti
so'kāmayata śraddhāṃ vindeyopa mā hvayeranniti
sa etatsāmāpaśyat
tenāstuta

Now, the Yauktāśva [sāman] has a preliminary stobha, an outside finale, and belongs to the Bṛhat.
Therefore it is performed on the Bṛhat day.
Vasiṣṭha was the domestic priest of King Sudās Paijavana, the Aikṣvāka.
That Sudās Paijavana deposited mares with Vasiṣṭha, as [kings] deposit with a domestic priest.
Vasiṣṭha, setting out on an acquisition tour, said to his younger brother Yuktāśva: "You must oversee these animals of ours."
That Yuktāśva swapped the newborn foals of the king's mares:
those that were handsome he kept for himself;
those that were worse [he placed] among the king's mares.
They found out about it: "He has swapped the newborn foals."
They harassed him: "You are a thief, not a ṛṣi."
He desired: "May I find faith, may they summon me."
He saw this sāman.
With it he chanted praise.

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sa o i jvaretyeva nidhanamupait

He went to the finale: "o i jvare".

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tato vai sa śraddhāmupahavamavindata

Then indeed he found trust [and] invitation.

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śraddhāṃ vindāmahā iti satramāsate

"May we find trust," [thinking] thus they sit for a sacrificial session.

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śraddhāmeva vindante

They indeed find trust.

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etaddha vai vācassatyaṃ yad

This indeed is the truth of speech, namely:

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o i jvare

"o i jvare"

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ti

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jvaretīva ha vai cācassatyam

As "jvare" is indeed the truth of speech.

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satyena vai sa tadvācaśśraddhāmupahavamavindata

By means of the truth of speech, he then found trust [and] invitation.

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śraddhānīyo bhavati | vindata upahavaṃ ya evaṃ veda

Trustworthy he becomes, he finds an invitation, who knows thus.

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tadu prajaniṣṇu paśavyaṃ sāma

And this sāman is generative, possessing cattle.

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o i jvare

"o i jvare"

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ti nidhanaṃ bhavati

—this is the finale.

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ajyata iti paśuṃ pravīyamāṇamāhuḥ

"He is anointed (ajyate)," so they say of cattle being impregnated.

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ajvarā hāsya paśavaḥ prajaniṣṇavo bhavanti ya evaṃ veda

Free from fever (ajvarāḥ) and generative indeed become his cattle, who knows thus.