Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-3.59
English (machine translation) 2-3.59
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2-3.59
The syllables of the Gāyatrī, the Uṣṇih, and the Anuṣṭubh are eighty-four.
They are four twenty-onefolds.
And the syllables of the Paṅkti and the Triṣṭubh are eighty-four.
They are four twenty-onefolds.
And the syllables of the Bṛhatī and the Jagatī are eighty-four.
They are four twenty-onefolds.
Now the syllables of the three meters are one hundred and ten:
the Dvipadā has twenty syllables,
the Virāj has thirty syllables,
the Aticchandas has sixty syllables.
They amount to one hundred and ten syllables.
From them he takes two.
Then twelve ninefolds are produced.
These twelve ninefolds he places in the twelve twenty-onefolds.
They become the twelve thirty-sixfold months; thus these meters correspond to the ninefold stoma—
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—and to the twenty-onefold [stoma], or to the five: breath, the fires, and the sun.
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Now the two syllables that [remain], they are the Bṛhat and the Rathantara; they are day and night.
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That is the half-month, that is the month, that is the season, that is the year.
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Regarding this they say: since the breaths are the meters, and the meters are the stomas, how does the sacrificer [stand]?
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reaches the meters by the breaths,
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