Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-7.253
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2-7.253
He said: 'Shall we sacrifice with this sacrifice as equal or as unequal?' 'As equal,' they said. In that they said, 'As equal,' they thereby made the rain equal, and in equality [they made] the realm, and they made agreement. But if they had said, 'As unequal,' the rain would have become unequal, the realm [would have been] in inequality, and there would have been disagreement. [They said:] 'By what shall we be united?' 'By the Yajñāyajñīya [sāman],' [he said]. Therefore they unite by the Yajñāyajñīya. The Yajñāyajñīya is speech; these worlds are speech. By speech they ascended unto speech. On the first day they gave three hundred and thirty-three [cattle]; through that, he prospered with the Vasus in this world. On the second day they gave three hundred and thirty-three [cattle]; through that, he prospered with the Rudras in this intermediate world. On the third day they gave three hundred and thirty-three [cattle]; through that, he prospered with the Ādityas in that world. He who, knowing thus, sacrifices with this sacrificial rite, prospers among these deities and attains these worlds.
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When Prajāpati in the beginning created the thousand, he gave it to the creatures, [saying]: 'This is with you (saha). '
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Because he said 'with you (saha)', that is the thousandness (sahasratva) of the thousand.
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Therefore one should indeed be possessor of a thousand, as it were, and possessor of being.
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For he said, 'With you.'
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Whoever, being settled there, should say to him: 'I give you the milk of a thousand,' so indeed
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it would be.
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The gods said to the god Īśāna: 'You are the most eminent among us.'
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'Take out that choice portion!'
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He carried forth these three sāmans as the essence of the thousand: that with the ṛt-finale, that with the ī-finale,
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