Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.406
English (machine translation) 2-8.406
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2-8.406
Intending to chant, they disperse. / The adhvaryu, intending to chant with the threefold head, with the Gāyatra, sits down in front of the two havirdhāna sheds. / The maitrāvaruṇa, intending to chant with the fifteenfold wing, with the Bṛhat, sits down on the south. / The brāhmaṇācchaṃsin, intending to chant with the seventeenfold wing, with the Rathantara, sits down on the north. / The neṣṭṛ, intending to chant with the twenty-onefold tail, with the Bhadra, sits down among the wives. / The udgātṛ, intending to chant with the twenty-fivefold trunk, with the Rājana, climbs the audumbarī post: the udumbara is vigor, food; [it is] for the attainment of vigor, of food. / Over it he recites: 'The Bṛhat and Rathantara are your front feet, the Vairūpa and Vairāja your rear feet, the Śākvara and Raivata your longitudinal bars, the meters the coverlet, the sacrificial formulas the webbing; sit down on the pleasant, sit down on the good seat!' / His stepping-down [formula is]: / 'May Great Heaven and Earth moisten this sacrifice of ours; / may they fill us with nourishments.'
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All at once they make the hiṃ sound.
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Therefore man is born conscious.
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They make the hiṃ sound following the udgātṛ's hiṃ sound.
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Therefore the limbs submit to the will of the self.
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The adhvaryu chants aloud with the threefold head, with the Gāyatra.
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He fits on this head.
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Therefore this head is fitted on.
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[He chants] with [verses] directed forward, not turning back.
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Therefore this head [looks] straight forward, not here and there.
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He chants aloud with nine [verses].
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Therefore this head does not fatten when [the body] fattens, nor does it grow thin when [the body] grows thin.
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The maitrāvaruṇa chants aloud with the fifteenfold wing, with the Bṛhat.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit