Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 16.71
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16.71
On this point they say: 'Proper food is indeed carried away from him from whom the fire is carried away.' / He should address it with the sacred formulas: / 'Return with strength, return, O Agni, with food and life! / Protect us again from distress! / Return with wealth, O Agni; overflow with a stream / all-nourishing, from all around!' / Thus he puts proper food back into himself. / With that with which he sings the prelude, they approach the cadence. / Therefore that sun yonder moves back and forth. / From where it rose today, from there it will rise tomorrow. / Now the Vāmadevya [sāman]. / Cattle are the Vāmadevya. / Having praised with this, they become possessed of cattle. / 'All the battle-lines, overcoming them, the men joined together fashioned Indra, and they generated the sovereign,' / thus they are verses containing 'born'. / Containing [the word] 'birth' is the form of this vairāja day.
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Upon them is the Traiśoka [sāman].
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The Vairāja sacrifice indeed crushes down, as it were.
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They prop it up with the Traiśoka, as if with a larger meter.
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These worlds, being together, split into three.
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They grieved, just as a single [body] cut into three would grieve.
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The gods said: 'Let us strike away the three sorrows of these three worlds.'
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They saw this sāman.
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They praised with it.
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With it they struck away the three sorrows of these three worlds.
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Because they struck away the three sorrows of these three worlds, that is the Traiśoka-nature of the Traiśoka.
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He strikes away sorrow who knows this.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit