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Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 26.162

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26.162

Having gone to the heavenly world, they said: "Having become long indeed, this sāman has conveyed us to the heavenly world!"
That is the longness of the Dīrgha.
This is a sāman that leads to heaven.
He attains the heavenly world, who knows thus.
"For your intoxication, O friends"—
thus [verses] containing the word "intoxication" (madvat) are [used].
Thereby, successively, they place sap and exhilaration into the third pressing.
"Sing toward him as he purifies himself,
like an infant [feeding him] with sacrificial offerings, pleasing him with eulogies"—
thus they approach the very form of cattle.
An infant indeed belongs to cattle.
"Gathered like a calf with its mothers, the drop, being urged on, is anointed"—
thus [verses] containing cows and cattle are [used], for the securing of cattle,
for this day is cattle.
"The intoxication favoring the gods, adorned by prayers"—
thus [verses] containing the word "around" (parivat) are [used], which is the form of the end,
for this day is the end.

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Then, upon them, the Kārṇaśravasa [is sung].
Indra, having hurled the thunderbolt at Vṛtra, thinking "I have not laid [him] low," became dismayed.
His ears closed up.
With them he could not hear.
He desired, "May I be not deaf; may I hear with my ears!"
He saw this sāman.
With it he praised. Thereupon he indeed became non-deaf; he heard with his two ears. He said, 'I have heard indeed with my two ears.' That is the kārṇaśravasa-nature of the Kārṇaśravasa [sāman]. He becomes non-deaf, he hears with his two ears, who knows thus. They also call it the Gauloma. Golomā Āṅgirasa, desiring cattle, performed austerity. He saw this sāman. With it he praised. He went toward this iḷā. The iḷā is cattle; thereupon he indeed obtained cattle. This is a cattle-granting sāman. He obtains cattle, he becomes rich in cattle, who knows thus. And because Golomā Āṅgirasa saw it, therefore it is named Gauloma. 'The Soma drops, flowing clear, most path-finding for us, friendly, sounded, spotless'—in this [verse] is the form of the Revatīs. On them is the Gaurīvīta, whose Brāhmaṇa has been stated.

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