Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.388
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2-8.388
Prajāpati indeed is seventeenfold. Prajāpati is the generator of creatures: [thinking] 'May we, generated by him who is the generator of creatures, generate offspring.' And they are in the Anuṣṭubh [meter]; speech is the Anuṣṭubh, speech is generation: [thinking] 'May we generate offspring from the generation of speech.' And they are Ukthya [days]; cattle are the ukthas, cattle are food: [thinking] 'Lest we cut off our offspring from cattle and food.' Concerning this, Śāṭyāyani said, disregarding the statement of Bhāllabeya: 'One should approach [them] only from the Abhijit. That which is this six-day rite of the pṛṣṭhas, that is indeed the Abhijit by resting-place. Those which are the stomas of the six-day rite of the pṛṣṭhas, these are they. In the six-day rite of the pṛṣṭhas there is only one seventeenfold [stoma], but in this one there are three seventeenfold [stomas]. Having made that stoma, they generate that. Since they generate the seventeenfold from the seventeenfold, the seventeenfold from the seventeenfold, the seventeenfold from the seventeenfold, and further beyond in the Viśvajit there are three seventeenfold [stomas], both of these, having joined together, generate that. Their firm standing is indeed here: one should approach [them] only from the Abhijit.'
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The Viṣuvant is twenty-onefold.
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The Viṣuvant is indeed the twenty-first of this world.
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Twelve months, five seasons, these three worlds, and that Āditya is the twenty-first.
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He is indeed firmly established above all this [universe].
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[Thinking:] 'In that upon which he is firmly established, in all that may we be firmly established.'
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Therefore, the introductory verse is dedicated to Vāyu in the Anuṣṭubh [meter].
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Speech and Vāyu are the two among the deities who have reached this [sun].
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[Thinking:] 'Through those two among the deities who have reached this, through them may we reach him.'
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If indeed Vāyu were not to blow, he would burn this [world] with his blazing heat, and Agni Vaiśvānara would seize the creatures.
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