Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2.234
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2.234
Thus he spoke to them: 'Being simple, not knowing, you were not god-seeking, you who over-sacrificed the virāj.' / Regarding this, they say: 'Whence did you stretch the sacrifice? Where did you establish it?' / 'From where you stretch it,' he should say, 'there indeed have I established it. / From man the sacrifice is stretched; in man it is established.' / Now Hṛtsvāśaya Āllakeya, the king of the Mahāvṛṣas, consecrated his son. / Somaśuṣma Sātyayajñi was engaged for him for the udgītha. / The messengers of the Mahāvṛṣas rushed to him: 'Come, the assembly is gathered!' / Driving forward, he said: 'O Udgātṛ, to you I entrust this son!' / Having sacrificed, he came back. / He said: 'O Udgātṛ, where have you established the sacrifice? Where the sacrificer? Where his cattle?' / He gave him no answer. / He said: 'Consecrate my son again; we do not know what you have done with my son.' / They consecrated him again. / For him he himself sang the udgītha. / Had he replied, [he would have said]: 'In the sacrificer himself I have established the sacrifice; the sacrificer in the Vāmadevya; his cattle in the Rathantara.'
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This indeed is the highest stride of speech: namely, ten.
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So far, indeed, the highest stride of speech proceeded.
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That which is the highest stride of speech—'May I obtain all of that!' [he thinks].
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Now, that which is higher than this—twenty, a hundred, a thousand—these are just its limbs and joints.
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That is the abundance of speech alone.
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And thus right here he obtains the entire virāj.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit