Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.338
English (machine translation) 2-8.338
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2-8.338
Now, these [nights] contain the twelve-day rite. For indeed, the sacrifice of the gods, the sacrifice of Prajāpati, is this twelve-day rite. / By this sacrificial session, indeed, Prajāpati prospered. Thinking, 'By that sacrificial session by which Prajāpati prospered, let us prosper,' [they perform it]. / Regarding this, they say: 'What is the summit of sacrificial sessions?' / 'The twelve-day rite,' he should say. / The twelve-day rite, indeed, is the summit of sacrificial sessions; for in no other sacrificial session is there a forty-four-verse stoma, nor a forty-eight-verse [stoma]. / Thinking, 'Let that which is the summit of sacrificial sessions be undertaken by us,' [they perform it]. / And indeed, here and there they employ speech in diverse ways, those who sacrifice, those who sit for a sacrificial session. / That [speech] they bring to completion precisely with the tenth day. / Thinking, 'May we attain the conclusion of complete speech, not pulled apart, firmly established,' [they perform it]. / And by one sacrificial session they undertake two sacrificial sessions: the twelve-day rite and the fourteen-night rite. / The concluding Atirātra is sacred to Vaiśvānara; for non-soma-sacrificial periods have their conclusion in Vaiśvānara.
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This sacrificial session indeed belongs to a single month.
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The prosperity through that is precisely this prosperity.
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A month, indeed, revolving again and again, attains the year.
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It is the year that they wish to obtain, the year they desire to attain, when they sacrifice, when they sit for a sacrificial session.
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For there is nothing whatsoever outside the year.
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Autonomous rule, indeed, are these nights which are fifteen.
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Seven days are on that side, seven on this side.
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Now, the day which is in the middle, that is autonomous rule, that is the heavenly world.
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Thus they go to the zenith of the sun, thus they go to autonomous rule.
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