Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 3.1
English (machine translation) 3.1
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3.1
He pushed those three apart into two.
They became six seasons.
From summer he created spring, from the rainy season autumn, from winter the cool season.
Therefore, these [seasons] are as if attached, for they were created [from each other].
He practiced heat on the existing six.
He pushed them apart into two.
They became twelve months.
He practiced heat on the existing twelve.
He pushed them apart into two.
They became twenty-four half-months.
He practiced heat on the existing twenty-four.
He considered: 'If I push [these] apart into two, they will not be sufficient. Come, let me create!'
From them he created seven hundred and twenty days and nights.
He differentiated all this.
Just as gold is unformed, so this [universe] was before that.
All works, both formed and unformed, are known upon it by one who knows thus.
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And he indeed became this Prajāpati, the year.
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Having braced all this, he stood pervading it.
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He considered: 'By what sacrificial nourishment, by what food, by what invigorating draught might this [offspring] of mine pervade?'
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In him he saw this sacrificial nourishment, invigorating draught, food, and imperishability: the twelve full-moon days, the twelve aṣṭakā days,
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the twelve new-moon days.
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He wished to obtain her.
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She said to him: 'You shall not obtain me without having toiled.'
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He practiced austerity.
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He saw this twelve-day sacrifice.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit