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Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.299

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2-8.299

By the loss inflicted by those two, they indeed succeeded. They rose up, saying: 'We have succeeded.' Their completions are these: that they finish [the rite], that is one; that one of them dies, that is one; that ten cows become a hundred, that is one; that a hundred cows become a thousand, that is one. Formerly, the householders of Sthūra [sacrificed] with this. The archers among the Trikartas or the Salvas arose on all sides and defeated them. They killed their sacrificial patron. Weeping, they sat down around their killed sacrificial patron. But Dhruvagopa recognized him running away by his resemblance alone. From the Āhavanīya fire itself he mounted upward to the heavenly world. He said: 'Do not weep! He whom you weep for, that very one has mounted from the Āhavanīya fire upward to the heavenly world.' Those of them whom they killed there went to the heavenly world. Now, those who were left behind are these days rather praised among the descendants of Sthūra; for prior to that, they were rather wretched villages. Therefore, they recount the Sthaura [rite] as the Peg-Casting Rite.

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Now, as for this [sacrifice] where the Viśvajit and Abhijit are the two Atirātras on both sides, with Gauḥ-Āyus, Gauḥ-Āyus—

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four Ukthyas in the middle—those desirous of cattle should undertake it.

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This world, indeed, is the Abhijit; that [world] is the Viśvajit.

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Then there are these four Ukthyas in the middle.

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Cattle, indeed, are the ukthas.

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Their stotriya verses are a thousand.

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Thus, by means of both this world and that one, they enclose these cattle on both sides; they obtain cattle.

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They become rich in cattle.

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By this very [rite], indeed, Indra and Agni conquered the thousand of the Maruts. Indra, indeed,

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invigorated the thousand of the Maruts.

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Agni is the Abhijit, Indra is the Viśvajit.

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