[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) › 1.140 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.140 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.140 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.140](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.140) āpo vai devānāṃ patnaya āsan tā mithunamaicchanta tā mitrāvaruṇāvupaitām tā garbhamadadhata tato revatayaḥ paśavo'sṛjyanta revatīṣu paśukāmasya kuryāt paśumāneva bhavati īśvaro ha tvaprajātirbhavitoḥ kavatībhyo hyeti prājāpatyābhyaḥ atha ha vā etadbharadvājaḥ pṛśnistotraṃ dadarśa paśukāmaḥ kayā naścitra ā bhuvad revatīrna sadhāmade | abhī ṣu naḥ sakhīnāmiti sa yadekāṃ revatīṃ madhyato'pisṛjati tena paśubhyo naiti yadu kavatyau prājāpatye abhito bhavatasteno prajāyai naiti tatsvāraṃ bhavati prāṇo vai svaraḥ prāṇānevaitatpaśuṣu dadhāti īśvaro ha tu svareṇa yajamānasya paśūnniḥsvaritoryadyanidhanaṃ kuryāt prāṇānapihanyāt > The waters were indeed the wives of the gods. > They desired union. > They approached Mitra and Varuṇa. > They conceived an embryo. > From that the Revatī cattle were created. > He should perform \[it\] on the Revatī \[verses\] for one who desires cattle. > He indeed becomes rich in cattle. > However, he is liable to become childless, > for he departs from the verses containing 'ka', which belong to Prajāpati. > Now, Bharadvāja, desiring cattle, saw this Pṛśni-stotra: 'With what help will the wonderful one be present for us?', > 'The Revatīs have not rejoiced together', 'Directly to us of friends'. > In that he introduces one Revatī in the middle, thereby he does not depart from cattle; > and in that two verses containing 'ka' belonging to Prajāpati are on both sides, thereby he does not depart from offspring. > It has a final tone. > The tone is indeed breath. > He thus places breaths in cattle. > However, by the tone he is liable to sing the sacrificer's cattle away into sound; if he should make it without a finale, > he would shut off the breaths. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.140.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.140.p1) avitā jarāyitṝṇāmā āuho hā yi śatāṃ bhavasyauho huṃ mā tā yā huṃ mā > 'avitā jarāyitṝṇāmā āuho hā yi śatāṃ bhavasyauho huṃ mā tā yā huṃ mā' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.140.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.140.p2) ityuttamāyā uttarārdhe kuryāt > —he should make this in the latter half of the final \[verse\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.140.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.140.p3) sa yathā vraje gā anupādyārgalenāpihanyāttādṛktat > Just as one, having driven cows into a pen, would close \[it\] with a bolt, such is that. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.140.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.140.p4) tadāhussvayonāveva tatsvāraṃ kāryam > Regarding this they say: that final tone is to be made in its own womb \[meter\] alone. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.140.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.140.p5) ya enamevaṃ cakṛvāṃsamupamīmāṃseta svareṇa yajamānasya paśūnnirasvārīriti taṃ > If someone should reprove him who has acted thus, saying: 'With the tone you have sung away the sacrificer's cattle into sound,' to him > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.140.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.140.p6) brūyānnidhanavatpurastādrathantaraṃ nidhanavadupariṣṭānnaudhasam > he should say: 'The Rathantara with a finale is in front; the Naudhasa with a finale is above.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.140.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.140.p7) tābhyāṃ ma etadubhayataḥ prajāḥ paśavaḥ parigṛhītāḥ > 'By these two, offspring and cattle are enclosed on both sides for me.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.140.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.140.p8) prāṇamevaitadadhāṃ madhyataḥ paśūnāmiti > 'I have merely placed breath in the midst of the cattle.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.1.140) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.140](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.140) · Pramāṇa