Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-7.256
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2-7.256
Day after day there are the Sauparṇa sāmans, belonging to heaven, for the attainment of the heavenly world. / Regarding this they say: 'These sāmans are rapid; they might cut down the sacrificer before his full span of life. / Only two are to be performed, just for flight.' / They also say: 'They effect this for him; / only one is to be performed, just for attainment.' / Why then should they cut him down? All of them should be performed. / The gods went upwards to the heavenly world by means of the three-day rite. / Not being firmly held, it was being torn apart for them. / With the Gāyatrapārśva they propped it up; with the Saṃtanin they held it together; with the Saṃkṛti they put it in order; with the Triṣandhi they joined it; with the Śrāyantīya they made it adhere; with the Ariṣṭa they brought it to harmlessness. / That these sāmans are performed is for propping up the three-day rite, for holding together the three-day rite, for putting in order the three-day rite, for joining the three-day rite, for making the three-day rite adhere, for the harmlessness of the three-day rite. / The six-day rite has the Kakubh, the Svāra has the Uṣṇih; / they interweave the three-day rite right in the middle, so that it does not collapse.
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The first day amounts to six Gāyatrī verses and ten stotra verses.
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The second day amounts to six Triṣṭubh verses and one stotra verse.
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Now as for the third day: its two soma pressings amount to Jagatī verses, [and] to Anuṣṭubh verses.
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The third pressing is the twenty-one-fold Ṣoḍaśin.
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The Ṣoḍaśin desired a share in the two preceding days.
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The two preceding days desired a share in the Ṣoḍaśin.
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They approached him with these eleven stotra verses.
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That Ṣoḍaśin amounted to the Anuṣṭubh.
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He who knows the Ṣoḍaśin as having a share in the two preceding days, and the two preceding days as having a share in the Ṣoḍaśin,
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becomes a shareholder wherever he desires: 'May I be a shareholder!'
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit