Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 3.7
English (machine translation) 3.7
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3.7
The meters indeed bear its fourth [part]. They perform it backward, forward, and across for food. Therefore they live upon cattle [moving] backward, forward, and across. Prajāpati, when being born, was born together with evil. He desired: 'May I strike off evil.' He saw this sacrifice, the twelve-day rite with shifted meters. He took it; he sacrificed with it. By it he shifted evil in every direction. He who considers himself to be seized, as it were, by evil should sacrifice with this twelve-day rite with shifted meters. He shifts evil in every direction. But the creatures become gliding, as it were. In that the subsequent ājya-lauds are in the Gāyatrī [meter], it is for the non-slipping of the creatures. A peg or a support is this Gāyatrī; on it the twelve-day rite is held fast against slipping.
3.7.p1
With the ten-day rite, Prajāpati created creatures.
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When created, they were scattered in all directions.
3.7.p3
He saw these two Vaiśvānara Atirātras.
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With these two he enclosed them on both sides: from below with this one, and from above with yonder one.
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With these two he held them in check.
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Because he held all being in check (avārayata), that is the Vaiśvānara-nature of the two Vaiśvānaras.
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