Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-3.72
English (machine translation) 2-3.72
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2-3.72
So many are the stars and constellations, so many the lights, so many the suns.
He who knows thus obtains these stars and constellations, obtains the lights, obtains the suns.
Now of its strophic verses there are ninety thousand, three hundred, and ninety-six.
This has been sung in a verse:
"Ninety thousand are its strophic verses, and three hundred, and ninety, and six beside;
praised together with them, Prajāpati goes shining forth through the past and future world."
So it is.
Now of its words there are four thousand, thirty ten-thousands [three hundred thousand], seven hundred, and fifty words.
This has been sung in a verse:
"Four thousand, thirty ten-thousands, seven hundred, and fifty words
belong to the year praised by the wise poets; such is the intermediate divine measure."
So it is.
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Now of its syllables: one ten-thousand, sixty hundred-thousands, two millions, and nine syllables, seven
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thousand, and ten times ten.
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This has been sung in a verse:
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"One ten-thousand, sixty hundred-thousands, two millions, and nine syllables,
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seven thousand, and ten times ten: such is the supreme self of Prajāpati."
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This computation is endless.
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This computation is immortal.
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This computation belongs to the well-done [world].
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Now what is without computation is mortal.
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Therefore one should consider it as equal.
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This computation is the army of the gods.
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With an army of men one lays low him whom one wishes to lay low.
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"In such a way here may one lay low him whom one wishes to lay low with an army of gods," [so it is said].
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