[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) › 1.195 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.195 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.195 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.195](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.195) sendreṇa vajreṇa vṛtraṃ pāpmānaṃ hanānīti sendreṇa haiva vajreṇa dviṣantaṃ pāpmānaṃ bhrātṛvyaṃ hanti ya evaṃ veda atho āhussaptadaśa eva kārya iti pañcadaśo vai vajraḥ indro vajrasyodyantā ṣoḍaśaḥ prajāpatireva saptadaśaḥ so'nuṣṭhātā so'bhigoptā so'bhivādayitā praharjahi māpakramīḥ iti sendreṇa vajreṇa saprajāpatikena vṛtraṃ pāpmānaṃ hanānīti sendreṇa haiva vajreṇa saprajāpatikena dviṣantaṃ pāpmānaṃ bhrātṛvyaṃ hanti ya evaṃ veda atho āhurekaviṃśa eva kārya iti sarvābhyo vā etaṃ saptabhyo hotrābhya indro vajraṃ niramimīta tisrastisra eva hotrāyai sa ekaviṃśaṣṣoḍaśī samapadyata tenendro vṛtramahan hanti dviṣantaṃ bhrātṛvyaṃ ya evaṃ veda tadu hovāca yāmano bhrātalāyano virājo vā eṣa saṃpade ṣoḍaśī vairājo vai ṣoḍaśī virājivirāji pratiṣṭhitaḥ sa yatraivaitaṃ virājaṃ saṃpadyamānaṃ manyeta tadevaitena stotavyam > \[Indra thinks:\] 'With Indra along with the thunderbolt may I slay evil Vṛtra.' With Indra along with the thunderbolt he indeed slays his hostile, evil rival who knows thus. Now they also say: 'It should be made seventeenfold.' The fifteenfold is indeed the thunderbolt; Indra is the wielder of the thunderbolt, the sixteenth; Prajāpati himself is the seventeenth. He is the director, he the protector, he the prompter: 'Strike! Slay! Do not retreat!' \[He thinks:\] 'With Indra along with the thunderbolt, along with Prajāpati, may I slay evil Vṛtra.' With Indra along with the thunderbolt, along with Prajāpati, he indeed slays his hostile, evil rival who knows thus. Now they also say: 'It should be made twenty-one-fold.' Indra fashioned this thunderbolt from all seven offices of the Hotṛ, three from each office of the Hotṛ. That Ṣoḍaśin turned out twenty-one-fold. With it Indra slew Vṛtra. He slays his hostile rival who knows thus. Now on this point Yāmana Bhrātalāyana said: 'This Ṣoḍaśin is for the attainment of the Virāj. The Ṣoḍaśin belongs to the Virāj, established in Virāj after Virāj. Wherever he considers this to turn out to be the Virāj, just there he should chant with this.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 1.194.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.194.p9) - [Next: 1.196](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.196) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.1.195) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.195](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.195) · Pramāṇa