Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-3.45
English (machine translation) 2-3.45
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2-3.45
Some mount it with a reverent greeting alone: 'Homage be to you, revered one; we know you, be auspicious to us!' Some mount it silently, [thinking:] 'Mind is Prajāpati; this day belongs to Prajāpati.' He should mount it first with this [foot], then with this, then with this, then with this, [thinking:] 'May I attain immortality.' Then for him who has mounted they bring the vāṇa of a hundred strings. He tunes it with this continuity-formula: 'Bhūr bhuvas svar! Speak, speak, speak, speak, speak, wide one! Broad, easy to tread, easy to traverse! Doing, deed, doer, about to do! A dense, exalted, multiform voice, a hundred years of life, proclaim, divine vāṇa!' Then he scrapes it with a reed bent by Indra and with a cane branch, saying: 'Mind is light,' 'Speech is truth,' 'Mind is auspicious.' He hands it over.
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Then he performs these other parimād songs.
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Then the praise is sung.
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Then the praise is sung first with the head, then with the right wing, then with the left, then with the tail, and lastly with the trunk.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit