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Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.60

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1.60

And regarding this Āruṇi said: The fire-offering cow is indeed heaven; her calf is Āditya. This [earth] is the fire-offering pot. The calf of the fire-offering cow of one who knows thus is never lost. Where indeed could this one be lost? Nor does the fire-offering milk spill while being milked for one who knows thus; for it is established upon this [earth] in this manner. Nor does the fire-offering cow sit down while being milked for one who knows thus. When she rains abundantly, they indeed say of her: 'She has rained as if sitting down!' Moreover, they say: If she should yield blood, what is the procedure there? What is the expiation? Seeing the distress, the evil of the sacrificer, she yields [blood] who yields blood. Having said, 'It steps apart,' he should tell [them] to cover the southern kitchen fire (anvāhāryapacana). Setting it over that, making a stirring-stick, he should cook it. He should pour it out quietly, item by item. Prajāpati is indeed unexpressed; the fire-offering belongs to Prajāpati. Or [he offers it] with these mystical utterances: 'bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ.' These mystical utterances are indeed all-expiations. Thus with all this he performs the expiation. Moreover they say:

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'If the fires should go out, what is the procedure there? What is the expiation?'

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Some churn it out from a firebrand itself,

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saying: 'From where it is lost to a man at the end, from there indeed he seeks the expiation for it.'

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saying [so].

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One should not consider it so.

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For having taken a firebrand from there, he would proceed, or a chip of the firebrand.

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He should do it thus:

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having snapped it off from the firebrand, he should churn it against the two kindling-sticks.

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He obtains that wish who churns from a firebrand, and he [obtains that wish] who [churns] from the two kindling-sticks.

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Moreover they say: 'If the Āhavanīya fire, having been taken out, should go out, what is the procedure there? What is the expiation?'

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This [Āhavanīya] is not extinguished as long as the Gārhapatya does not go out.

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Even if it should go out many times, he should simply take it out again and again.

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Just this is the procedure here.

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Moreover they say: 'If, when the Āhavanīya has been taken out, the Gārhapatya should go out, what is the procedure there?

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What is the expiation?'

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Some take it out toward the east from that very place.

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One should not do it thus.

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If someone were to say there: 'He has torn away the forward breaths of this sacrificer; this sacrificer will die,'

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it would indeed be so.

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Some bring it westward from that very place,

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saying: 'The Gārhapatya is the out-breath; the Āhavanīya is the in-breath.

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These two, out-breath and in-breath, agreeing together, eat food.'

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Moreover, the Gārhapatya is the house;

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houses are a firm foundation.

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If someone were to say of him there: 'He has departed from this firm foundation; this sacrificer will die,'

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