Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 33
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'May the calf restrain your mind,' / thus [the verses] contain the word 'ā' ('hither'). / That there are ukthas in the sacrifice's division is as if a separation. / Therefore, that they contain the word 'ā' is for the smooth continuity of the sacrifice. / On them [is sung] the Vātsa [sāman]. / Vatsa Kāṇva, desiring cattle, performed austerities. / He saw this sāman. / With it he praised. / He indeed was Triśoka ('Free of three sorrows') because of those three sorrows which he struck off; that was his triśoka-nature. / He then immediately obtained hornless, short-eared cattle. / That is this sāman belonging to cattle. / He who knows this obtains cattle and becomes rich in cattle. / Because Vatsa Kāṇva saw it, it is therefore called Vātsa. / 'You for us, O Indra, bring,' / [in the verse] there is the word 'you', which is the form of the bṛhat. / This day belongs to the bṛhat. / 'Might, manly strength, O performer of a hundred rites, watchful one, / bring hither a hero who overcomes battles,' that which contains hundred and thousand is the form of the Chandoma days. / The Chandoma days are cattle.
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On them [is sung] the Sauśravasa [sāman].
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Kutsa Aurava was fashioned from the thigh of Indra.
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Just as Indra was, so was he; just as if fashioned from his own self.
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He made him his charioteer.
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He surprised him with his wife Śacī Paulomī. He said to her, 'How could you do this?' She said, 'I did not distinguish between the two of you.' He said, 'I will make him bald; recognize him in that way.' He made him bald. Tying a turban around [his head], he lay down beside [her]. That very [covering] is the charioteer's turban. He surprised him again. He said to her, 'How could you do this?' She said, 'I did not distinguish between the two of you; he lay down beside me having tied on a turban.' He said, 'I will sprinkle dust between his shoulder-blades; recognize him in that way.' He sprinkled dust between his shoulder-blades. That very [dust] is the dust between the charioteer's shoulder-blades. Covering it, he lay down beside [her]. He surprised him again. He said to her, 'How could you do this?' She said, 'I did not distinguish between the two of you; having covered it, he lay down beside me.'
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He pressed him hard, saying, 'You are an athlete.'
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He said, 'Maghavan, let us not perish uselessly!
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Give us that by which we may live;
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for we are born from you.'
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[Indra said,] 'Shake off this dust on your shoulder-blades!'
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He shook it off.
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From that arose a great people called the Rajases and the Rajīyases.
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He became their king.
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Upagu Sauśravasa was his domestic priest.
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He said, 'Let no one sacrifice!
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He who sacrifices in my dominion shall be overcome! The gods do not eat of what is unoffered, nor is an offering on a leaf to be made!' Then Indra approached Upagu Sauśravasa and said, 'Let me officiate for you in sacrifice.' He said, 'Indeed, they do not sacrifice here. Whoever sacrifices here, him they would conquer.' He showed him world after world, [saying,] 'Having sacrificed, one wins this world, and this.' He reflected: 'Even if they conquer that one, come, let me sacrifice!' He said to him, 'Officiate for me!' He officiated for him. The sadas hall and the havirdhāna shed arose of their own accord. He pressed Soma in a mortar. He said, 'Come here away from Kutsa.' He went to Kutsa himself. He said to him, 'For whom did you sacrifice?' 'For Upagu.' 'Conquer this Upagu!'
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They conquered him. Approaching him a second and a third time, he said, 'Let me officiate for you in sacrifice.' He said, 'Indeed, they do not sacrifice here. Whoever sacrifices here, him they would conquer. Twice has he sacrificed; they just conquered that one.' He showed him world after world, [saying,] 'Having sacrificed, one wins this world, and this.' He reflected: 'Even if they conquer that one, come, let me sacrifice!' He said to him, 'Officiate for me!' He officiated for him. The sadas hall and the havirdhāna shed arose of their own accord; he pressed Soma in a mortar. He said, 'For whom did you sacrifice?' 'For Upagu.' Rising up himself, cutting him down, he threw him into the water.
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His father Suśravas Sthaurāyaṇa realized: 'Kutsa Aurava has indeed my son
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cut down and cast into the water.'
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Running up to him, he said, 'Where have you put my son?'
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'Here he lies, cast into the water.'
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He went down after him.
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Indra, having become a red deer, drank the Soma out of his mouth.
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He reflected: 'This is indeed Indra.
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Let me praise just him;
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he will bring this [son] of mine back together.'
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He saw this sāman.
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With it he praised him: / 'Indra of the handsome lips drank of the sap, well-skilled, of the pouring [libation] / of the drop, mixed with barley.' / He said to him, 'Desiring what do you praise me?' 'Bring this son of mine back together,' he said. Saying 'Chirn him out!' he churned him out. He brought him back together. That is this healing, expiatory sāman. A healing expiation he then made. That which is the seventh day is as if broken; that they heal with this. They make a healing expiation with this. Moreover, it is a wish-granter. He desired that wish; that wish was fulfilled for him. Whatever wish one desires when praising with this sāman, that wish is fulfilled for him. Because Suśravas Sthaurāyaṇa saw it, it is named the Sauśravasa.
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The seers, rising from a sacrificial session, went on their way, harnessing [themselves].
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They said, 'Come, let us see some wonder!'
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They said, 'This tortoise Akūpāra inside the ocean is a great wonder;
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come, let us see him!'
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They went down to him.
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He did not appear to them.
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They said, 'Come, let us praise Indra; he indeed is master of him.
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He will show him to us.'
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They said to Atri, 'O seer, do you praise!'
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He saw this triplet of Atri.
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With it they approached him:
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'O wonderful Indra, what gift given by you is not here for me, O wielder of the thunderbolt,
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that bounty, O possessor of goods, bring to us in both hands!'
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He reflected: 'The seers ask something great of me;
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'bring in both hands,' they say!' / 'What broad, famed thought is yours to be accomplished in the quarters, / with that, O wielder of the thunderbolt, cleave open wealth for the taking, even from strongholds!' / — [so he recited]. He reflected: 'The seers ask something firm of me; but they did not know that they wished to see Akūpāra.' / 'What choice, heavenly thing you consider, O Indra, that bring; / may we know of that [giving] of yours, for the giving of Akūpāra!' / — [so he recited]. Then he knew: 'They wish to see Akūpāra.' Raising him with his foot, he said: 'Is it this, like something great, that the seers said to me, "bring in both hands"?' They saw him. These are the wish-granting verses. They desired that wish; that wish was fulfilled for them. Whatever wish one desires when praising with these verses, that wish is fulfilled for him.
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On them is the Vīṅka of Vasiṣṭha, a surpassing. Indeed, at this point an anuṣṭubh surpasses an anuṣṭubh. Being an anuṣṭubh, it amounts to thirty-three syllables; thereby it surpasses. Vasiṣṭha, when he was vanquished and his sons killed, desired: 'May I pervade these worlds; may I extend far with offspring and cattle!' He saw this sāman. With it he praised. By it, shouting 'vī vī', he pervaded these worlds; he extends far with offspring and cattle. It is a heaven-procuring, procreative sāman. He pervades these worlds, he extends far with offspring and cattle, who knows thus. And it is unjostled by a stobha. From what is unjostled, offspring and cattle are born. The chandomas are cattle; thereby it is rich in proper form. Because Vasiṣṭha saw it, it is named the Vīṅka of Vasiṣṭha. It is an Iḷā-bearing sāman for the acchāvāka priest. Iḷā is cattle; they firmly establish themselves in cattle.
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"Wiping the newborn, pleasing babe,"
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[such] contain [the word] "tawny" (hari).
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The highest form of speech is indeed endowed with "hari".
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They seek speech together by means of the chandomas.
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For speech, as it were, is now attained in the chandomas;
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thus they find it.
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"The Maruts adorn the sage with [their] troop,"
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[such] contain [the word] "Maruts".
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Endowed with the Maruts is indeed the form of the triṣṭubh;
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this day belongs to the triṣṭubh.
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Moreover, nobility is the triṣṭubh, and the commoners are the Maruts.
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In that the triṣṭubhs contain the Maruts, they thereby make the commoners follow nobility.
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Therefore, the commoner is a follower of nobility.
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"The poet, [inspired] with songs through poetic wisdom, being a poet, Soma passes beyond the strainer, roaring,"
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so saying, [he recites] passing beyond [some verses].
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"Having the mind of a seer, he who is a seer-maker, winning light, having a thousand melodies, the guide of poets"—thus they approach the thousandfold form of the chandomas; cattle indeed are the chandomas. "The buffalo desiring to gain the third abode"—for this third three-day rite that is the chandomas is performed. "Soma reigns along with the virāj, the triṣṭubh"—thus they approach the triṣṭubh form; for this day belongs to the triṣṭubh. And indeed, this is the power and dominion from before; along with that the chandomas reign. "Resting in the ladles, the falcon, the bird bearing [the sacrifice] far, the finder of cows, the drop bearing weapons"—thus they are endowed with cows and cattle, precisely for the acquisition of cattle; for cattle are the chandomas. "Pursuing the wave of the waters, the ocean"—thus they are endowed with the ocean, the form of the chandomas; for the ocean is the chandomas. "The buffalo proclaims the fourth abode"—for this day that is the chandomas is made the fourth of the days.
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These become triṣṭubhs, possessing the color of the triṣṭubh, perfected through the form of the day. Where they prosper [the rite] with the form of the day, it succeeds there. He who knows thus succeeds. "These Somas [flow] toward what is dear"—[with the word] "toward" (abhi), there is the form of the rathantara; this day is connected with the rathantara. "They flowed according to the desire of Indra"—that which pertains to Indra is the form of the triṣṭubh; for the triṣṭubh is nobility. "Increasing his vital power"—for this day, which is the forty-four-fold [stoma], is great. The hymn becomes the counterpart; the hymn is cattle, cattle are the chandomas, for the acquisition of cattle.
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit