[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Vedic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda) › [Brāhmaṇas (ritual exegesis)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana) › [Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya) › 0.17 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 0.17 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 0.17 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [0.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.0.17) dve ha vāva yonī devayonirhaivānyā manuṣyayoniranyā dvā u haiva lokau devaloko haivānyo manuṣyaloko'nyaḥ sā yā manuṣyayonirmanuṣyaloka eva saḥ tatstriyai prajananam ato'dhi prajāḥ prajāyante tasmādu kalyāṇīṃ jāyāmiccheta kalyāṇe ma ātmā saṃbhavāditi tasmādu jāyāṃ jugupsennenmama yonau mama loke'nyassaṃbhavāditi tasya vai saṃbhaviṣyataḥ prāṇā agre praviśantyatha retassicyate sa imānprāṇānākāśānabhinirvartate tasmādu samānasyaiva retasassato yādṛśa eva bhavati tādṛśo jāyate athaiṣā devayonirdevaloko yadāhavanīyaḥ eṣā ha vai devayonirdevalokaḥ tasmādyo gārhapatye juhuyādakṛtaṃ karotītyevainaṃ manyeran sa yajjuhoti yassādhu karotyetasyāmevainaddevayonāvātmānaṃ siñcati so'syātmāmuṣminnāditye saṃbhavati sa haivaṃ vidvāndvyātmā dviyoniḥ ekātmā haivaikayoniretadavidvānsa yadasmāllokādevaṃvitprati - > There are, indeed, two wombs: one is the divine womb, the other is the human womb. There are, indeed, two worlds: one is the world of the gods, the other is the world of humans. That which is the human womb, that is the human world; it is a woman's generative organ. From this, offspring are born. Therefore one should desire a beautiful wife, thinking, 'May my self come into being in a beautiful \[womb\].' And therefore one should guard one's wife, thinking, 'Lest another come into being in my womb, in my world.' For when he is about to come into being, the breaths enter first; then the semen is emitted. He develops towards these breaths, these spaces. Therefore, although the semen is the same, of whatever sort \[the father\] is, of such sort \[the child\] is born. Now, this divine womb, the world of the gods, is the Āhavanīya \[fire\]. This is indeed the divine womb, the world of the gods. Therefore, if one should offer into the Gārhapatya \[fire\], they would consider him as doing what is undone. When he makes an offering, when he does good, in this very divine womb he pours himself. That self of his comes into being in yonder Āditya. He who knows thus has two selves and two wombs. He who does not know this has only one self and one womb. When he who knows thus departs from this world— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [0.17.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.0.17.p1) tasya prāṇaḥ prathama utkrāmati sa heyattāṃ devebhya ācaṣṭa iyadasya sādhu kṛtamiyatpāpamiti atha hāyaṃ dhūmena sahordhva utkrāmati tasya haitasyartavo dvārapāḥ tebhyo haitena prabruvīta vicakṣaṇādṛtavo reta ābhṛtamardhamāsyaṃ prasutātpitryāvataḥ taṃ mā puṃsi kartaryerayadhvaṃ puṃsaḥ karturmātaryāsiṣikta sa upajāyopajāyamāno dvādaśena trayodaśopamāsaḥ saṃ tadvide prati tadvide'haṃ taṃ mā ṛtavo'mṛta ānayadhvam iti taṃ hartava ānayante yathā vidvānvidvāṃsaṃ yathā jānañjānantamevaṃ hainamṛtava ānayante taṃ hātyarjayante sa haitamāgacchati tapantam taṃ hāgataṃ pṛcchati kastvamasi iti sa yo ha nāmnā vā gotreṇa vā prabrūte taṃ hāha yaste'yaṃ mayyātmābhūdeṣa te saḥ iti tasminhātmanpratipanna ṛtavassaṃpalāyya padgṛhītamapakarṣanti tasya hāhorātre lokamāpnutaḥ tasmādu haitena prabruvīta ko'hamasmi suvastvam sa tvāṃ svargyaṃ svaragāmiti ko ha vai prajāpatiḥ > —his breath ascends first. It announces to the gods the measure \[of his deeds\]: 'So much good was done by him, so much evil.' Then this one ascends upward along with the smoke. The seasons are his doorkeepers. He should declare to them with this \[formula\]: 'From the far-seeing, O seasons, the semen has been brought, formed in a half-month, from the generative \[father\] possessed of fathers. Set me, such as I am, in a male who is an agent; poured from a male who is an agent into a mother, being born and reborn through the twelfth \[month\], as the thirteenth, an intercalary month—I know that together, I know that in response; as such, O seasons, lead me to the immortal.' Then the seasons lead him. Just as one who knows \[leads\] one who knows, just as one who understands \[leads\] one who understands, so indeed the seasons lead him. They let him pass through. He comes to this one who burns \[above\]. To him who has arrived, he asks: 'Who are you?' He who proclaims himself by name or by lineage, to him he says: 'This self of yours which was in me, this is that of yours.' When he has received that self, the seasons, having run together, seize him by the feet and drag him away. Day and night take possession of his world. Therefore he should declare with this \[formula\]: 'Who (Ko) am I; heaven (suvas) are you. As such, I have come to you, the heavenly, to heaven.' 'Who' (Ka) is indeed Prajāpati. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.0.17) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.0.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.0.17) · Pramāṇa