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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.223

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.223

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.223](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.223)

idaṃ vaso sutamandhaḥ iti gāram  
devebhyo vā asurā garānprākiran  
tānavidvāṃso'girannannameva manyamānāḥ  
te garagiro'manyanta  
te'kāmayantāpemāngarāngīrṇānhanīmahīti  
ta etatsāmāpaśyan  
tenāstuvata  
tenemāngarāngīrṇānapāghnata  
ta eveme girayo'bhavan  
tadyadgarāngīrṇānapāghnata tadeva gārasya gāratvam  
sa yo garagīrmanyetāpratigṛhyasya pratigṛhyānāśyānnasyānnamaśitvā sa etena  
stuvīta  
apa haiva taṃ garaṃ gīrṇaṃ hate  
yadenena kiṃ ca pāpaṃ kṛtaṃ bhavati tadapahate  
tadaiḷamacchāvākasāma bhavati  
paśavo vā iḷā  
paśuṣvevaitatpratitiṣṭhati

> 'This juice, O generous one, pressed...' is the Gāra \[sāman\].  
> The Asuras indeed scattered poisons against the gods.  
> Not knowing, they swallowed them, thinking them to be food.  
> They considered themselves poison-swallowers.  
> They desired: 'May we ward off these swallowed poisons.'  
> They saw this sāman.  
> They praised with it.  
> With it they warded off these swallowed poisons.  
> These very ones became mountains.  
> That they warded off the swallowed poisons, that is the swallowed-poison-warding quality of the Gāra.  
> He who considers himself a poison-swallower, having accepted \[a gift\] from one whose gift is not to be accepted, having eaten the food of one whose food is not to be eaten, should praise with this.  
> He wards off that swallowed poison.  
> Whatever evil has been done by him, that he wards off.  
> It is the Acchāvāka's sāman with the finale iḷā.  
> Iḷā is cattle.  
> Thus he becomes established in cattle.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.223.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.223.p1)

idaṃ hyanvojasā idghṛtaścunnidhanam

> 'This indeed, then, by strength...' having ghṛtaścut as finale.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.223.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.223.p2)

ghṛtaścutā ca vai madhuścutā ca devā yatra yatraiṣāṃ yajñasyopādasyattadāpyāyayanta

> By Ghṛtaścut and Madhuścut, wherever their sacrifice dwindled, the gods replenished it.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.1.223) — English, machine translation

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