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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.132

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.132

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.132](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.132)

paśuṣveva tajjagatyāṃ pratitiṣṭhati  
atho dvādaśa māsāḥ  
tāneva tadāpnoti  
trayodaśākṣarāṇi stobhati  
ya evāsāvadhicarastrayodaśo māsa tameva tadāpnoti  
caturdaśākṣarāṇi stobhati  
saṃvatsaro vai caturdaśaḥ  
saṃvatsara eva tatpratitiṣṭhati  
pañcadaśākṣarāṇi stobhati  
pañcadaśa vā ardhamāsasya rātrayaḥ  
ardhamāsaśa eva saṃvatsaramāpnoti  
ṣoḍaśākṣarāṇi stobhati  
ṣoḍaśakalo vai puruṣaḥ  
kalā eva taddviṣantaṃ pāpmānaṃ bhrātṛvyamavāñcamapavahanti śriyamātmanāśnute  
atho ṣoḍaśina eva stobhasya stotramāpnoti  
saptadaśākṣarāṇi stobhati  
prajāpatirvai saptadaśaḥ  
prajāpatāveva tatpratitiṣṭhati

> He thus finds a firm standing in cattle, in the Jagatī.  
> Moreover, twelve are the months.  
> He thereby obtains them.  
> He chants thirteen stobha-syllables.  
> That intercalary thirteenth month yonder, he thereby obtains that very one.  
> He chants fourteen stobha-syllables.  
> The year indeed is fourteenth.  
> He thus finds a firm standing in the year.  
> He chants fifteen stobha-syllables.  
> Fifteen indeed are the nights of a half-month.  
> He obtains the year half-month by half-month.  
> He chants sixteen stobha-syllables.  
> Sixteen-parted indeed is the person.  
> The parts indeed carry away downward the evil, hostile rival who hates him, and he himself attains prosperity.  
> Moreover, he obtains the praise-song of the Ṣoḍaśin stobha.  
> He chants seventeen stobha-syllables.  
> Prajāpati indeed is seventeenfold.  
> He thus finds a firm standing in Prajāpati.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.132.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.132.p1)

etadanyatstobhet

> He should chant these other stobha syllables.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.132.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.132.p2)

ṛcameva na gāyet

> He should not sing just the verse.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.132.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.132.p3)

sa yadṛcameva gāyati tena rathantarasya rūpānnaiti

> When he sings just the verse, he does not depart from the form of the Rathantara.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.1.132) — English, machine translation

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