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Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 53

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They undertake the response before its finale. / By the prelude and the response the sacrificer is held. / They are as if passed beyond at this point. / In that they undertake the response before the finale, it is for not overstepping. / It has a musical cadence (svāra); / it sounds towards the tenth day. / It has a musical cadence. / With the cadence they proceed on the next day. / Just as one would cross over from level to level, or just as one would connect breath with breath, such is that.

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Through the preceding days they harness speech separately. / If they were to arise without having completed it, they would arise with a failure. / Thus they complete it. / Day by day indeed are they bound in the snare of Varuṇa who sacrifice, who sit at a sacrificial session. / In that they go stepping backwards, they go loosening the snares of Varuṇa. / With the stotriya verses they go depositing seed from here; with the corresponding verses (anurūpa) they proceed here; they generate it. / He is propagated with offspring and cattle who knows thus. / With the introductory day the twelve-day rite is harnessed; with the tenth day it is unyoked. / With whichever yoke-halter they yoke a horse or a mule, with that very one they unyoke it again. / Those nine stotriya verses which were before, they are now above. / They cast out the yoke-pins (śamyā). / Therefore just as the draught-animal is yoked, so it is unyoked. / Therefore acquisition and preservation (yogakṣema) succeed, / [when] they divide the triplets of the introductory day.

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They say: 'Where are they connected?' He should say: 'On the tenth day.' By means of triplets they connect the single verses on both sides, for the connection of the breaths, for non-interruption. Verily, these [meters] contemplate one another's world: the brahman contemplates the kṣatra; the kṣatra [contemplates] the viś; the viś [contemplates] the brahman. Contemplating one another's world, they fulfill desire. With whatever desire one brings them in, that desire succeeds for him. The first three-day period has its meters flowing straight forward: thereby it is made fresh. They rearrange the meters of the second [three-day period]: thereby the second three-day period is made fresh. They rearrange the meters of the third [three-day period]: thereby the third three-day period is made fresh.

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The first three-day period has the Gāyatrī at the beginning: therefore this fire burns upright. The second three-day period has the Gāyatrī in the middle: therefore this wind blows horizontally. The third three-day period has the Gāyatrī at the end: therefore that sun yonder shines downward. The gods and the asuras contended. They said: 'Whichever of us sings the Gāyatrī thrice without taking breath, he shall conquer both these worlds and the out-breath, down-breath, and through-breath.' Ayāsya Āṅgirasa sang the Gāyatrī thrice without taking breath. Thereby he conquered both these worlds and the out-breath, down-breath, and through-breath. He conquers both these worlds and the out-breath, down-breath, and through-breath, who, knowing thus, sings the Gāyatrī thrice without taking breath. Verily, he who knows the ten-day rite adapting through the Agniṣṭoma—it adapts for him: by the morning pressing, the first three-day period adapts; by the midday pressing, the second; by the third pressing, the third; by the Agniṣṭoma-sāman, the tenth day adapts. It adapts for him who knows thus.

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Then these Āprī-ājyas are [sung]. Prajāpati created creatures. Having created [them], he felt emptied. He saw these Āprī-ājyas. With them he filled himself up for freshness. Verily, they are emptied out, as it were, who come to this day. When these Āprī-ājyas are [sung], the sacrificers thereby fill themselves up for freshness. The ājyas are unexpressed, for the non-assailment of the meters, to distinguish between bad and good. He is separated from evil who knows thus. He utters the last foot to Indra and Agni, for the non-loss of the meters, for the revelation of the sacrifice. By the revealed sacrifice they attain the heavenly world. As to this, they say: 'Since they omit the tenth day from all the days, by what then are their Chandomas uninterrupted?' 'By the stoma,' he should say. The seventh day is twenty-fourfold; the tenth day is twenty-fourfold. And also because this one ājya is common [to them], it is by that very [reason].

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'Born on high for thy drink…'—these [verses] containing 'up' (ud-) occur on the day of departure, and also for ascending to the heavenly world; for the heavenly world is this tenth day. 'He for us, for Indra, worthy of worship, for Varuṇa, the Maruts…'—thus they contain 'Marut'. Having the Maruts is indeed the form of the midday; thus they do not depart from the form of the midday. 'Desiring to win, we ask of the noble one all these splendors of men'—thus they contain 'desiring to win' (siṣāsant-); for desiring to win, they go to the heavenly world by means of this day.

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