Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 58.302
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58.302
Man, indeed, stands placed beyond [it].
Ten indeed are the fingers of a man's hands, ten of his feet, ten breaths, two supports;
the self is the thirty-third.
Wild animals run turned away;
therefore, they turn toward a deer that turns its ears [in hearing].
For it is performed for one who turns his ears [in hearing].
These are Prajāpati's unique-hero sons, namely the stomas of the twelve-day rite.
Then they say: 'This day is twenty-fourfold;
all of it should be made twenty-fourfold, in order not to go against these unique-hero sons of Prajāpati.'
Because these [verses] have thirty-three syllables, they do not omit the thirty-three-stoma thereby.
Rather, more forms are missing;
more forms are indeed the other [way].
The thirty-three[-stoma] alone is to be performed.
All the deities, indeed, are thirty-three.
In all these deities at the end of the sacrifice do they become established.
Moreover, firmly established indeed is this stoma that belongs to all deities, where the thirty-three[-stoma] is.
Therefore, the thirty-three-stoma alone is to be performed at the end.
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They confuse the numerical correspondence, however.
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Taking nine stoma-verses from the brahman's sāman alone, he should insert them here.
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They do not lose the numerical correspondences; they become established in both stomas: those that are odd and those that are even.
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Just as standing in the intermediate space one would unyoke, in the same way, by means of the Vāmadevya [sāman], all the chanted hymns and recitations at the end
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are unyoked.
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Then they say: 'Should it be spoken out, or should it not be spoken out?'
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'It should not be spoken out,' they say.
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They run a race, indeed, who reach this day.
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Of them, he who is struck down falls behind.
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Just as one would lean upon one who has fallen behind, such is that.
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Whoever leans upon one who has fallen behind, both of them indeed fall behind.
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Moreover, they wait upon Prajāpati with this day.
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As to why they do not speak out: who indeed ought to disparage the serving of a superior?
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Whoever disparages the serving of a superior, into whatever ruin he desires for him, into that he
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leads him.
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Then they say: 'The brahman priest alone should speak it out.'
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- Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa — Sanskrit