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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.162

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.162

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.162](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.162)

atha ha sumitraḥ kautso darśanīya āsa  
sa taṃ hovāca sumitra darśanīyo vā asi  
sulāpā vai darśanīyena striyaḥ  
imāṃ dīrghajihvīṃ lilāpayiṣasveti  
tāṃ hetyovāca dīrghajihvi kāmayasva meti  
sā hovācaikaṃ tava śepo'ṅge'ṅge mama muṣkā na vai tatsaṃpadyata iti  
sa ha punaretyovācaikaṃ tava śepo'ṅge'ṅge mama muṣkā na vai tatsaṃpadyata iti vai  
māma iyamāheti  
aṅge'ṅge vā ahaṃ tava śepāṃsi karomīti hovāca  
tāni hābhiprāvṛtyeyāya  
tāṃ hovāca dīrghajihvi kāmayasva meti  
sā hovācaikaṃ tava śepo'ṅge'ṅge mama muṣkā na vai tatsaṃpadyata iti  
aṅge'ṅge vāva mama śepāṃsīti hovāca  
aṅga te paśyānīti

> Now Sumitra Kautsa was handsome. / He \[Indra\] said to him: 'Sumitra, you are indeed handsome. / Women are easily spoken to by a handsome man. / Try to coax this Long-tongued woman.' / He went and said to her: 'O Long-tongued one, desire me!' / She said: 'You have only one penis; on each of my limbs there are vulvas. That does not match.' / He came back and said: 'She said to me: "You have only one penis; on each of my limbs there are vulvas. That does not match."' / 'I shall make penises for you on each limb,' he \[Indra\] said. / Having transformed these, he went. / He said to her: 'O Long-tongued one, desire me!' / She said: 'You have only one penis; on each of my limbs there are vulvas. That does not match.' / 'Indeed, on each of my limbs there are penises,' he said. / 'Let me see them, then!'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.162.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.162.p1)

tāni hāsyai darśayāṃ cakāra

> He showed them to her.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.162.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.162.p2)

tāni hāsyai chandayāṃ cakruḥ

> They pleased her.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.162.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.162.p3)

sā vā ehīti hovāca

> She said: 'Come!'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.162.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.162.p4)

ko nāmāsīti

> 'What is your name?'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.162.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.162.p5)

sumitro nāmeti

> 'My name is Sumitra \[Good Friend\].'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.162.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.162.p6)

kalyāṇaṃ vai te nāmeti

> 'Fair indeed is your name.'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.162.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.162.p7)

tau ha saṃnipedāte

> The two lay together.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.162.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.162.p8)

tasyāṃ ha yadārthaṃ cakre'tha haināṃ tadevābhisaṃjagrāha

> When he accomplished his purpose with her, then and there he grabbed her firmly.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.1.162) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Altindische Grammatik](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.wackernagel-1896.v3.c9.1754) — Jacob Wackernagel & Albert Debrunner, German
- [The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.keith-1925.v1.c17.s1.18) — Arthur Berriedale Keith, English

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