Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.310
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2-8.310
They sought to harm him. He reflected: 'How now might I slay seven of their domestic cattle each day?' He saw these two sacrifices. He brought them; he sacrificed with them. Then indeed he slew seven of their domestic cattle each day. This is that unbreached thunderbolt. With this unbreached thunderbolt he hurled [destruction] against them. Just as one might crush sesame seeds with a wooden pestle, so indeed dawn broke upon them, crushed and unburied. He who has a rival, who performs black magic, who contends, should sacrifice with these two. With this unbreached thunderbolt he slays the hateful, evil rival. And they also say: 'One who desires offspring should sacrifice with these two.' The stoma is here linked to the stoma; from a linked pair, offspring and cattle are born, verily for propagation. Then this seventh day becomes seventeen-fold. On it they approach the Mahāvrata. Prajāpati is seventeen-fold; food is the Mahāvrata; they provide Prajāpati with food in his own domain.
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Now these eight-night rites.
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Bṛhaspati desired: 'May I be brilliant, endowed with spiritual luster, may I attain fame among the gods.'
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He saw this eight-night sacrifice.
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He brought it.
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He sacrificed with it.
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Then indeed he became brilliant, endowed with spiritual luster, and attained fame among the gods.
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For he attained fame when he obtained the office of domestic priest among them.
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He becomes brilliant, endowed with spiritual luster, and attains fame among the gods, who knows thus.
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And they also say: 'One who desires a full life-span should sacrifice with this.'
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The Gāyatrī is breath.
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This sacrifice has conformed to the Gāyatrī.
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Therefore indeed one who desires a full life-span should sacrifice with this.
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And they also say: 'One who desires cattle should sacrifice with this.'
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The Gāyatrī has eight syllables.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit