Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.46
English (machine translation) 1.46
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1.46
One of the seasons, holding a hammer in hand, having come down along a ray, asks him: "Who are you, O man?"
Knowing what would he drive him away?
He strikes him.
When he is repelled, his good deed is destroyed threefold.
He takes a third [for himself];
a third disperses along the quarters;
with the [remaining] third he descends back to this world.
Whatever world of his has been won by giving, in that he takes delight.
Death indeed ultimately overtakes him from there.
Repeated death is unconquered for him. But one who knows thus:
When he is afflicted with illness, where he has a level, good, clear ground, there he should say: "Churn fire for me here."
He is capable of recovering.
And if that is not so, when he departs from this world, then they should take him.
Having poured the fires into two different pots, they should carry an ember from the anvāhāryapacana fire.
They should take the sacrificial utensils, ghee, water, firewood, the covering cow (anustaraṇī), a razor, and nail-clippers.
They go to where he has a level, good, clear ground.
There they distribute his fires.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit