Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.129
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1.129
Having repelled the Asuras, it turned back towards the gods.
Therefore the gods were afraid.
Reaching for it, they thrust it between the Bṛhat and the Rathantara.
This very thunderbolt with a razor-like edge is the Puruṣa between the Bṛhat and the Rathantara.
Whomever he might hate, into the mouth of the Bṛhat and the Rathantara he should place him.
If the soma belongs to the Rathantara, when the Rathantara is introduced, he should say: 'Homage to Mother Earth; O Rathantara, do not harm me!'
If the soma belongs to the Bṛhat, when the Bṛhat is introduced, he should say: 'I take refuge in Father Heaven; O Bṛhat, do not harm me!'
Then he should recite after it: 'By the breaths, cut off the breaths of that one!
With a sharper adze, cut off his life-breath!
Angry, strike him with wrath as with a staff!
Stringing the bow, pierce him with an arrow!'
He places him into the very mouth of the Bṛhat and the Rathantara.
Him whom he hates, his breath departs from him before a year.
He who knows the chariot of the gods becomes a chariot-fighter.
The sacrifice is indeed the chariot of the gods; of it, the Bahiṣpavamāna is the front of the chariot, the Bṛhat and Rathantara are the two horses, the Ājya-lauds are the yoking-straps, the reins are the two Pavamānas, the side-boards—
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