Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.220
English (machine translation) 1.220
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1.220
Her teeth sounded like pressing-stones. Indra ran up, thinking, "The pressing-stones are speaking!" She spoke out:
"The maiden, going down to the water, found soma by the stream;
carrying it home she said: 'For Indra I will press you, for the mighty one I will press you!'"
Realizing, "Her teeth sound like pressing-stones," Indra turned away. She said to him:
"You hero over there who go about, looking into house after house,
drink this [soma] pressed by the jaws, accompanied by parched grain, gruel, cake, and hymn!"
Not minding [his hesitation], she said to him:
"We do not understand you, nor do we pay attention to you."
Thinking, "Before she finishes the half-verse, Apālā is praising me," he turned back.
"Slowly, as it were, very slowly, as it were, flow around, O drop, for Indra!"—
thus indeed he sucked the soma out of her mouth. It is like a drinking of soma for him who, knowing thus, smells the mouth of a woman.
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He said to her: "Apālā, what do you desire?"
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She said:
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"These three places, O Indra, make them sprout:
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my father's head, his cultivated field, and this [part] of mine below the belly.
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Make them all hairy!"
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Her father was bald.
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Him he made non-bald.
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His cultivated field did not yield.
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It yielded.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit