Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-3.126
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2-3.126
With this very rite Udara Śāṇḍilya desired to sacrifice.
It was in his mind alone: 'I would sacrifice with the Ekatrika.'
He did not speak to anyone.
Now his wife was possessed by a gandharva.
A gandharva approached her.
He said to her, 'There is a sacrificial rite called Ekatrika, quite terrible.
With it your husband is going to sacrifice.'
She asked her husband, 'There is a sacrificial rite called Ekatrika, quite terrible.
Is it true that you will sacrifice with it?'
He said, 'Since I did not speak of this to anyone, it was in my mind alone, who told you this?'
'The gandharva who approaches me,' she said.
'Do ask him,' he said,
'"Should one sacrifice with it, or should one not sacrifice with it?"'
She asked him, 'Should one sacrifice with it, or should one not sacrifice with it?'
He said, 'As he knows it, so we know it.
But whoever knows its stotra in this way—as Prajāpati praised with it yonder—he may sacrifice with it.'
Therefore he did not dare to sacrifice [with it].
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Constantly Udara Śāṇḍilya became an object of praise for this very reason, that it was in his mind alone: 'With the Ekatrika
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I would sacrifice.'
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This sacrificial rite is indeed of an either-or nature: having sacrificed with it, one becomes either very praiseworthy or very wretched.
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Its bahiṣpavamāna consists of one [verse]: 'Sing unto him, O men' (upāsmai gāyata naraḥ).
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The midday pavamāna is on three [verses]: the Gāyatra on a gāyatrī; the Utsedha on a satobṛhatī, having the same finale as the Iḷā; and the Auśana on a triṣṭubh.
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[This triplet has] its finale.
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On this single [verse] is the ārbhava pavamāna: 'With this bright yellow brilliance, being purified' (ayā rucā hariṇyā punānaḥ).
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On this aticchandas [verse] is the flank-piece of the Gāyatra.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit