Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-3.96
English (machine translation) 2-3.96
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2-3.96
For it, the opening verse to be used should be: 'For you two are lords of heaven.'
This indeed is the opening verse for two sacrificers together.
Concerning this, however, they say: '"Flow, foremost of speech!" and "Sing unto him, O men!"—these two opening verses
should be used.
These indeed are the two opening verses for two sacrificers together.
Moreover, both sāmans are performed here;
therefore these two opening verses should be used.'
In this [rite] they assign these sāmans: the Gauṣūkta and Aśvasūkta, the Hāviṣmata and Hāviṣkṛta,
which are pairs of sāmans, which are the sāmans of two sacrificers together.
They perform the Virāj-Svarāj on the Anuṣṭubh of the Ārbhava Pavamāna [stotra].
For this sacrifice is the Virāj-Svarāj.
They thereby make the stoma complete.
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Now this is the Jyeṣṭhayajña (Sacrifice of Preeminence).
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He who is desirous of preeminence should sacrifice with it.
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It corresponds to eight twenty-one-verse [stomas].
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Twelve months, five seasons, these three worlds: that sun is the twenty-first.
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And he is the summit, preeminence.
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[Thinking:] 'May he who is the summit, preeminence, lead me to the summit, preeminence.'
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Its pavamāna [stotras] are seventeen-verse.
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Prajāpati is seventeenfold.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit