[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) › 1.101 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.101 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.101 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101) tadāhurhiṃkāreṇa vai prajāpatiḥ prajābhyo'nnādyamasṛjata yanna hiṃkuryādaśanāyukāḥ prajāssyuḥ hiṃkuryādeva bhūḥ iti yanna hiṃkāraṃ visṛjati tena reto vicchinatti na hiṃkāramantaretīti tadu vā āhuḥ mamṛdīya iva vā ato reto dāruṇatara iva hiṃkāro'pi vainadvālena vicchindyāt hiṃkārasyaiva kāle hiṃkāraṃ manasā dhyāyet tanna reto vicchinatti na hiṃkāramantaretīti bhūḥ iti nidhanaṃ karoti prajāpatiryadagre vyāharatsa bhūḥ ityeva vyāharat sa imāmasṛjata sa yadbhūḥ iti nidhanaṃ karotyasyāmevaitadretaḥ pratiṣṭhāpayatyatho enattadbhūtimeva gamayati > Regarding this they say: 'By means of the hiṃ-sound Prajāpati created food for creatures. > If he were not to utter the hiṃ-sound, creatures would be hungry. > He should indeed utter the hiṃ-sound: > "bhūḥ".' > In that he does not emit the \[bare\] hiṃ-sound, thereby he does not cut off the seed, nor does he omit the hiṃ-sound. > Regarding this they also say: 'Seed is softer, as it were, than this; the hiṃ-sound is harder, as it were. > One might cut it off even with a hair.' > At the very time of the hiṃ-sound, he should mentally meditate on the hiṃ-sound. > Thus he does not cut off the seed, nor does he omit the hiṃ-sound. > He makes 'bhūḥ' the finale. > When Prajāpati spoke in the beginning, he spoke just 'bhūḥ'. > He created this \[earth\]. > In that he makes 'bhūḥ' the finale, he firmly establishes this seed in this \[earth\], and also brings it to prosperity. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p1) gāyatrīṃ gāyati > He sings the Gāyatrī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p2) prāṇo vai gāyatrī > The Gāyatrī is breath. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p3) tasyai dve akṣare vyatiṣajati > He intertwines two syllables of it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p4) prāṇāpānāveva tadvyatiṣajati > Thereby he intertwines out-breath and in-breath. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p5) tasmātprāṇāpānau vyatiṣaktau prajā anusaṃcarata ā ca parā cāyātayāmānau > Therefore, out-breath and in-breath, intertwined, move along creatures back and forth, unexhausted. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p6) saditi nidhanaṃ karoti > He makes 'sat' the finale. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p7) prāṇo vai san > Breath is the real. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p8) prāṇa eva tatpratitiṣṭhati > Thereby he firmly establishes \[himself\] in breath. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p9) triṣṭubhaṃ gāyati > He sings the Triṣṭubh. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p10) cakṣurvai triṣṭup > The Triṣṭubh is the eye. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p11) tasyai dve akṣare dyotayati > He makes two syllables of it shine forth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p12) cakṣuṣī eva taddadhāti > Thereby he places the two eyes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p13) tasmādyukte iva cakṣuṣī > Therefore the two eyes are joined, as it were. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p14) jyotiḥ iti nidhanaṃ karoti > He makes 'jyotis' the finale. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p15) cakṣurvai jyotiḥ > The eye is light. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p16) cakṣuṣyeva tatpratitiṣṭhati > Thereby he firmly establishes \[himself\] in the eye. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p17) jagatīṃ gāyati > He sings the Jagatī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p18) śrotraṃ vai jagatī > The Jagatī is the ear. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p19) tasyai catvāryakṣarāṇi dyotayati > He makes four syllables of it shine forth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p20) śrotrameva taddadhāti > Thereby he places the ear. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p21) śrotre dve pariśravaṇe dve > The two ears \[and\] the two hearings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p22) tasmātsamānatra sansarvā anudiśaśśṛṇotyapi parāṅyanpaścādvadataśśṛṇoti > Therefore, being in the same place, he hears all directions; even when turning away, he hears those speaking behind him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p23) iḷā iti nidhanaṃ karoti > He makes 'Iḷā' the finale. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p24) paśavo vā iḷā > Iḷā is cattle. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p25) paśuṣvetatpratitiṣṭhati > He thus finds support in cattle. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.101.p26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101.p26) anuṣṭubhaṃ gāyati > He sings an Anuṣṭubh. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.1.101) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.101) · Pramāṇa