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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.220

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.220

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.220](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.220)

tasyai ha grāvāṇa iva dantā ūduḥ  
sa indra ādravadgrāvāṇo vai vadantīti  
sābhivyāharat  
kanyā vāravāyatī somamapi srutāvidat  
astaṃ bharantyabravīdindrāya sunavai tvā śakrāya sunavai tvā  
iti  
asyai vā idaṃ grāvāṇa iva dantā vadantīti viditvendraḥ parāṅāvartata  
tamabravīd  
asau ya eṣi vīrako gṛhaṃ-gṛhaṃ vicākaśat  
imaṃ jambhasutaṃ piba dhānāvantaṃ karambhiṇamapūpavantamukthinam  
iti  
anādriyamāṇaivaitamabravīd  
ā cana tvā cikitsāmo'dhi cana tvā nemasi  
iti  
purā mā sārdhayarcāpālā stautītyapaparyāvartata  
śanairiva śanakairivendrāyendo pari srava  
ityevāsyai mukhātsomaṃ niradhayat  
somapītha iva ha vā asya sa bhavati ya evaṃ vidvānstriyai mukhamupajighrati

> Her teeth sounded like pressing-stones. Indra ran up, thinking, "The pressing-stones are speaking!" She spoke out:  
> "The maiden, going down to the water, found soma by the stream;  
> carrying it home she said: 'For Indra I will press you, for the mighty one I will press you!'"  
> Realizing, "Her teeth sound like pressing-stones," Indra turned away. She said to him:  
> "You hero over there who go about, looking into house after house,  
> drink this \[soma\] pressed by the jaws, accompanied by parched grain, gruel, cake, and hymn!"  
> Not minding \[his hesitation\], she said to him:  
> "We do not understand you, nor do we pay attention to you."  
> Thinking, "Before she finishes the half-verse, Apālā is praising me," he turned back.  
> "Slowly, as it were, very slowly, as it were, flow around, O drop, for Indra!"—  
> thus indeed he sucked the soma out of her mouth. It is like a drinking of soma for him who, knowing thus, smells the mouth of a woman.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.220.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.220.p1)

tāmabravīdapāle kiṃkāmāsīti

> He said to her: "Apālā, what do you desire?"  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.220.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.220.p2)

sābravīd

> She said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.220.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.220.p3)

imāni trīṇi viṣṭapā tānīndra vi rohaya

> "These three places, O Indra, make them sprout:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.220.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.220.p4)

śirastatasyorvarāmādidaṃ ma upodire

> my father's head, his cultivated field, and this \[part\] of mine below the belly.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.220.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.220.p5)

sarvā tā romaśā kṛdhi

> Make them all hairy!"  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.220.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.220.p6)

iti

### [1.220.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.220.p7)

khalatirhāsyai pitāsa

> Her father was bald.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.220.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.220.p8)

taṃ hākhalatiṃ cakāra

> Him he made non-bald.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.220.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.220.p9)

urvarā hāsya na jajñe

> His cultivated field did not yield.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.220.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.220.p10)

so ha jajñe

> It yielded.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.1.220) — English, machine translation

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