Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.412
English (machine translation) 2-8.412
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2-8.412
It has five stobhas, five padavṛttis, five deities, five pratihāras, five nidhanas. / Whatever sacrifice is fivefold, whatever cattle are fivefold, whatever food is fivefold, whatever five seasons there are, whatever is fivefold: / of all that, this is the success, this is the attainment. / The five-nidhana Vāmadevya becomes the Brahma-sāman. / For fivefold they praise with the vrata. / It is in atichandas meters, on the verses "In the trikadrukas, the buffalo, the barley-mixed [soma]..." / This atichandas surpasses other meters. / Beyond other [people] go those who sit through the year. / In their own meter they establish themselves. / It contains the words "ehi" and "iha", which is the characteristic mark of the end. / For this day is the end. / On this they say: "The Ilānda should be made the Agniṣṭoma-sāman of this day." / By means of the Ilānda, Prajāpati gave nourishment and food to creatures. / "By that by which Prajāpati gave nourishment and food to creatures, by that having obtained nourishment and food let us rise." / It is in atichandas meters. / This atichandas surpasses other meters. / Beyond other [people] go those who sit through the year. / In their own meter they establish themselves.
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It is on Vaiśvānara verses.
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For this is the stotra of Vaiśvānara.
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It is on eighty-syllabled [verses], thinking: "May we obtain [everything]."
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Like the ocean, inexhaustible as it were, indeed is this meter, the atichandas: "Like the ocean,
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inexhaustible may we be, having praised."
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It is winged.
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For winged is the vrata of this day.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit