Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.154
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1.154
That [sāman] ends with the iḷā-call. / The iḷā is cattle. / Truly by means of cattle they drove them away. / Therefore, when two rivals, one with cattle and one without cattle, contend, the one who has cattle overcomes the other. / This sāman, indeed, spreads out along these creatures. / At the end they approach this extended iḷā, so that creatures are not uprooted from their proper abode. / Therefore, creatures are not uprooted from their proper abode. / The gods, the fathers, and humans were on one side; the asuras, the rakṣases, and the piśācas were on the other side. / They contended for these worlds. / Now the Kali Gandharvas roamed in between, paying heed neither to the one nor to the other. / Those gods, fathers, and humans overcame the asuras, the rakṣases, and the piśācas. / They divided these worlds among themselves: the gods took the world of the gods, the fathers the world of the fathers, and humans the world of humans. / The Kali Gandharvas came to them and said, 'Allot to us [a share] in these worlds!' / They said, 'No! / You roamed about paying heed to neither, paying heed neither to the one nor to the other.' / 'Now indeed we were entering into you with our mind,' they said; 'do allot to us [a share]!'
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They said, 'No.'
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'Our worlds have been well divided; we shall not be able to confuse them.'
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They said, 'Whatever we ourselves find here, let that be ours.'
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They gave them these Kalindās, saying: 'Toil in these.'
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Because they gave the Kalindās to the Kalis, that is how the Kalindās got their name [Kalindatva].
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He, this Kali, or another, saw this sāman.
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With it he praised.
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With it he saw this intermediate region, a hard-to-reach world.
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He conquered it.
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Therefore this is a world-finding sāman.
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He who praises with it finds a world.
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He does not, however, conquer beyond the world of the Gandharvas; he conquers as it were just the world of the Gandharvas.
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And because Kali or another saw it, therefore it is called the Kāleya.
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The gods, having torn away the third pressing from the first two pressings, went to the heavenly world.
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These worlds were torn apart; the sacrifice was torn apart.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit