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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.131

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.131

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.131](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131)

pāṅkto yajñaḥ pāṅktāḥ paśavaḥ  
yajñe caitatpaśuṣu ca pratitiṣṭhati  
ṣaḍakṣarāṇi stobhati  
ṣaḍvā ṛtavaḥ  
ṛtuṣveva tatpratitiṣṭhati  
atho ṣaḍvai chandāṃsi  
tānyeva tadāpnoti  
saptākṣarāṇi stobhati  
saptapadā vai śakvaryaḥ  
śākvarāḥ paśavaḥ  
paśuṣveva tacchakvaryāṃ pratitiṣṭhati  
atho sapta caturuttarāṇi chandāṃsi sapta mukhyāḥ prāṇāḥ  
tānyeva tadāpnoti  
aṣṭāvakṣarāṇi stobhati  
aṣṭākṣarā vai gāyatrī  
tejo brahmavarcasaṃ gāyatrī  
tejasyeva tadbrahmavarcase pratitiṣṭhati  
atho aṣṭāśapheṣveva paśuṣu

> Fivefold is the sacrifice; fivefold are cattle.  
> He thus finds a firm standing in the sacrifice and in cattle.  
> He chants six stobha-syllables.  
> Six indeed are the seasons.  
> He thus finds a firm standing in the seasons.  
> Moreover, six indeed are the meters.  
> He thereby obtains them.  
> He chants seven stobha-syllables.  
> Seven-footed indeed are the Śakvarī \[verses\].  
> Cattle belong to the Śakvarī meter.  
> He thus finds a firm standing in cattle, in the Śakvarī meter.  
> Moreover, seven are the meters increasing by four syllables; seven are the vital breaths in the head.  
> He thereby obtains them.  
> He chants eight stobha-syllables.  
> Eight-syllabled indeed is the Gāyatrī.  
> The Gāyatrī is brilliance, spiritual luster.  
> He thus finds a firm standing in brilliance and spiritual luster.  
> Moreover, \[he stands\] among eight-hoofed cattle.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p1)

navākṣarāṇi stobhati

> He chants nine stobha-syllables.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p2)

nava vai puruṣe prāṇāḥ

> Nine indeed are the breaths in man.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p3)

prāṇānevaitaddviṣato bhrātṛvyasya vṛñjyāt

> He thereby deprives the rival enemy of his breaths.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p4)

prāṇānātmandhatte

> He places the breaths in himself.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p5)

atho trivṛta eva stomasya stotramāpnoti

> Moreover, he obtains the praise-song of the threefold stoma.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p6)

daśākṣarāṇi stobhati

> He chants ten stobha-syllables.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p7)

daśākṣarā virāḍannaṃ virāṭ

> Ten-syllabled is the Virāj; food is the Virāj.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p8)

virājyeva tadannādye pratitiṣṭhati

> He thus finds a firm standing in the Virāj, in food.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p9)

atho daśa prāṇāḥ

> Moreover, ten are the breaths.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p10)

tāneva tadāpnoti

> He thereby obtains them.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p11)

ekādaśākṣarāṇi stobhati

> He chants eleven stobha-syllables.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p12)

ekādaśākṣarā triṣṭup

> Eleven-syllabled is the Triṣṭubh.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p13)

indriyaṃ vīryaṃ triṣṭup

> Faculty and vital power are the Triṣṭubh.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p14)

indriya eva tadvīrye pratitiṣṭhati

> He thus finds a firm standing in faculty and vital power.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p15)

dvādaśākṣarāṇi stobhati

> He chants twelve stobha-syllables.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p16)

dvādaśākṣarā vai jagatī

> Twelve-syllabled indeed is the Jagatī.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.131.p17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.131.p17)

paśavo jagatī

> Cattle are the Jagatī.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.1.131) — English, machine translation

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