Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 21.128
English (machine translation) 21.128
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21.128
He gave him a thousand [cows] for that. / With that he sacrificed. / It was just that: Cyavana Bhārgava, having praised with this sāman, became young again, gained a maiden as wife, and sacrificed with a thousand. / These indeed are the desires in this sāman; he secures these very desires. / Whatever desire one has when praising with this sāman, that desire succeeds for him. / And by this very sāman, whatever food Cyavana Bhārgava desired, that he drew up from the youthful pond of the Sarasvatī. / That is the sāman for securing food. / One who knows thus secures food and becomes an eater of food, the best of his own [people]. / And because Cyavana Bhārgava saw it, therefore it is called Cyāvana. / 'Life-breath, the infant of the great ones'— / with this they attain the form of cattle. / An infant belongs indeed to cattle. / On these [verses] is the Krośa; it is a sāman that kills rivals and possesses Indra. / One who knows thus slays his hateful rival, and Indra comes to his call. / It is on [verses containing] iḷā. Cattle indeed are iḷā. / Cattle are this day; it is for securing cattle.
21.128.p2
'Flow forth for the winning of prize'— / thus there are Anuṣṭubh verses containing the word vāja ('prize'). Food indeed is prize; [it is] for securing food. / 'Pressed with a stream through the purifier, / for Indra, O Soma, for Viṣṇu, most honeyed for the gods'— / thus there are verses addressed to Viṣṇu. The sacrifice indeed is Viṣṇu; [it is] for the undertaking of the sacrifice itself.
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