[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) › 1.214 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.214 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.214 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.214](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.214) prāṇā ha khalu vā okaḥ prāṇānevaitaddviṣato bhrātṛvyasya vṛṅkte prāṇānātmandhatte tadāhuḥ preva vā ete'smāllokāccyavante ye'tirātramupayantīti tadyadokonidhanaṃ bhavati - ayaṃ vai lokaḥ puruṣasyaukaḥ - asminnevaitalloke pratitiṣṭhati vītahavya āśrāyaso jyogaparuddhaścaranso'kāmayatāva sva okasi gaccheyamiti sa etatsāmāpaśyat tenāstuta sa okāḥ ityeva nidhanamupait tato vai so'va sva okasyagacchat etatkāmasani sāma etaṃ vai sa kāmamakāmayata so'smai kāmaḥ samārdhyata yatkāma evaitena sāmnā stute samasmai sa kāma ṛdhyate yadu śrīreva rājyaṃ vai sa tadagacchat aśnute śriyaṃ gacchati rājyaṃ ya evaṃ veda yadu vītahavya āśrāyaso'paśyattasmād okonidhanaṃ vaitahavyaṃ ityākhyāyate > Breathings are indeed a dwelling. > He thereby strips away the breathings of his hateful rival; he places the breathings in himself. > Regarding this they say: "Those who undertake the Atirātra fall away, as it were, from this world." > In that there is the refrain containing "okaḥ"—this world is a dwelling for a man—he thereby becomes established in this very world. > Vītahavya Āśrāyasa, roaming about, having been expelled for a long time, desired: "May I go down into my own dwelling." > He saw this sāman. > He praised with it. > He approached the refrain as "okāḥ". > Thence indeed he went down into his own dwelling. > This is a wish-granting sāman. > That desire which he desired, > that desire was fulfilled for him. > Whatever desire one has when chanting with this sāman, that desire is fulfilled for him. > And in that it was fortune, he went indeed to kingship. > He attains fortune, he goes to kingship, who knows thus. > And because Vītahavya Āśrāyasa saw it, therefore it is named "the Vaitahavya with the okaḥ-refrain". > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.214.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.214.p1) pra va indrāya mādanamiti madvatīrbhavanti > "Forth to Indra an exhilarating..."—thus \[the verses\] contain the word "mada" (exhilarating). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.214.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.214.p2) raso vai madaḥ > Exhilaration is sap. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.214.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.214.p3) dhītevaiṣā yadrātriḥ pīḍiteva > This night is sucked out, as it were, pressed dry, as it were. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.214.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.214.p4) nābhiṣunvanti > They do not press \[fresh Soma\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.214.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.214.p5) yadevādastṛtīyasavanādṛjīṣamatirecayanti tenāsyāṃ caranti > Whatever residue they leave over from that third pressing, with that they proceed in this \[night\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.214.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.214.p6) tadyadetā madvatīrbhavanti rasamevāsyāmetaddadhati > Now, in that these \[verses\] contain the word "mada", they thereby bestow sap into it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.214.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.214.p7) āivaināmetena pyāyayanti > They cause it to swell thereby. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.214.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.214.p8) tāsu śāktyam > Upon them \[is chanted\] the Śāktya \[sāman\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.214.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.214.p9) śāktyena vai śāktyāḥ paśūnavārundhata > By means of the Śāktya, the Śāktyas obtained cattle. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.214.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.214.p10) tacchāktyasya śāktyatvam > That is the nature of the Śāktya. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.1.214) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.214](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.214) · Pramāṇa