[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) › 1.19 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.19 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.19 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.19) prāṇenaiva vākca manaścābhihite rajjvā vai vatsaṃ ca mātaraṃ cābhidadhāti taddha janako vaideho yājñavalkyaṃ papraccha vetthāgnihotraṃ yājñavalkyā3 iti vedeti hovāca kimiti paya iti yatpayo na syātkena juhuyā iti vrīhiyavābhyāmiti yadvrīhiyavau na syātāṃ kena juhuyā iti yadanyaddhānyaṃ teneti yadanyaddhānyaṃ na syātkena juhuyā iti āraṇyābhiroṣadhībhiriti yadāraṇyā oṣadhayo na syuḥ kena juhuyā iti adbhiriti yadāpo na syuḥ kena juhuyā iti sa hovāca na vā iha tarhi kiṃ canāsīdathaitadu hūyata iva satyaṃ śraddhāyāmiti taṃ hovāca vetthāgnihotraṃ yājñavalkya namaste'stu sahasraṃ bhagavo dadma iti atha hainamupajagau kiṃ svidvidvānpravasati - > By the breath both speech and mind are bound; for with a rope one binds both calf and mother. Regarding this, Janaka of Videha asked Yājñavalkya: 'Do you know the fire-offering, Yājñavalkya?' 'I know it,' he said. 'What \[is the offering material\]?' 'Milk,' he said. 'If there should be no milk, with what would you offer?' 'With rice and barley,' he said. 'If there should be no rice and barley, with what would you offer?' 'With whatever other grain there is,' he said. 'If there should be no other grain, with what would you offer?' 'With wild plants,' he said. 'If there should be no wild plants, with what would you offer?' 'With water,' he said. 'If there should be no water, with what would you offer?' He said: 'Nothing at all would exist here then; yet this would still be offered, as it were—truth in faith.' He said to him: 'You know the fire-offering, Yājñavalkya. Homage be to you! We give a thousand \[cows\], venerable sir.' Then he sang to him: 'What, indeed, knowing does he dwell away from—' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.19.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.19.p1) - agnihotrī gṛhebhyaḥ > '—the fire-offerer, from his home?' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.19.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.19.p2) kathā tadasya kāvyaṃ kathā saṃtato'gnibhiḥ > 'How is that his poetic wisdom, how is he continuous with the fires?' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.19.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.19.p3) iti ### [1.19.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.19.p4) yadagnīnādhāyāthāpapravasati kathamasyānapaproṣitaṃ bhavatīti > 'Having established the fires, if he then journeys away, how does he remain not having journeyed away?' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.19.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.19.p5) sa hovāca vājasaneyaḥ > The Vājasaneya said: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.19.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.19.p6) yo javiṣṭho bhuvaneṣu sa vidvānpravasanvide > 'He who is swiftest among the beings, knowing that while journeying away, he knows \[the rite\].' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.1.19) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.19) · Pramāṇa