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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.192

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.192

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.192](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.192)

prajāpatiryaddevebhyastanvo vyabhajattato yā harivatyāsīttāmātmane'śiṃṣat  
tāmindrāya prāyacchat  
tayendro jyaiṣṭhyamagacchat  
tadyaddharivatīṣu stuvanti taddhyeva jyaiṣṭhyam  
harivatīḥ parokṣamanuṣṭubhassaṃpadyante  
tāssaṃstutāścatustriṃśadakṣarā bhavanti  
tato ye catustriṃśe akṣare sāmnastābhyāṃ loko vidhīyata ityāhuḥ  
yatpañcatriṃśadakṣarāsu stuyuḥ paraṃ rūpaṃ upapadyeranbārhatam  
yattrayastriṃśadakṣarāsu stuyuravaraṃ rūpamupapadyeranānuṣṭubham  
yatsaptadaśastomassyātparamaṃ rūpamupapadyeran  
yatpañcadaśastomaḥ syādavamaṃ rūpamupapadyeran  
yatṣoḍaśinā ṣoḍaśastomena catustriṃśadakṣarāsu stuvanti svenaivainaṃ tadāyatanena  
samarddhayanti  
tenaibhyaḥ samṛddhena svāyāṃ janatāyāmardhukaṃ bhavati  
ṣoḍaśa stotrāṇi ṣoḍaśa śastrāṇi  
taddvātriṃśat  
dvātriṃśadakṣarānuṣṭup  
ānuṣṭubhaṣṣoḍaśyanuṣṭubhaṃ saṃpannaḥ  
devachandasāni vā anyānyāsannasurachandasānyanyāni

> When Prajāpati distributed the bodies to the gods, that which possessed bay steeds (harivatī) he kept for himself. He gave it to Indra. By it Indra attained supremacy. Because they praise on the verses containing the word 'hari', that is supremacy. The verses containing the word 'hari' indirectly amount to the Anuṣṭubh. When praised, they become thirty-four syllables. Then they say that through those two thirty-fourth syllables of the sāman, the world is established. If they were to praise on thirty-five syllables, they would attain the higher Bārhat form. If they were to praise on thirty-three syllables, they would attain the lower Ānuṣṭubh form. If it were a seventeenfold stoma, they would attain the highest form. If it were a fifteenfold stoma, they would attain the lowest form. When they praise with the Ṣoḍaśin on thirty-four syllables with a sixteenfold stoma, they make him prosper by his own abode. Through this, made prosperous, he flourishes among his own people. There are sixteen stotras and sixteen śastras. That is thirty-two. The Anuṣṭubh has thirty-two syllables. The Ṣoḍaśin, being of the Anuṣṭubh meter, has attained the Anuṣṭubh. The meters of the gods were one kind, the meters of the Asuras were another.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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