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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.30

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.30

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.30)

tadyadvai tannabho nāmābhīrvai sā  
na hi tatprāpya kasmāccana bibheti  
tasmāttannabhaḥ  
ṣaḍahaṃ juhoti  
caturviṃśatirāhutayaḥ saṃpadyante  
caturviṃśatyakṣarā vai gāyatrī  
caturviṃśatirvasavo devāḥ  
te gāyatrīmanvāyattāḥ  
tebhyo gāyatrīva vasubhyo devebhya ekaikenākṣareṇa kāmānnikāmānduhe  
evamasmai juhvate duhe  
gāyatrīṃ sa chandasāṃ jayati vasūndevāndevānām  
vasūnāṃ devānāṃ sāyujyaṃ salokatāṃ samabhyārohati ya evaṃ vidvānagnihotraṃ  
juhoti

> As to what is called that sky, that is fearless;  
> for having reached that, one fears nothing.  
> Therefore it is that sky.  
> He offers for six days.  
> Twenty-four oblations are completed.  
> Twenty-four syllables indeed is the Gāyatrī.  
> Twenty-four are the Vasu gods;  
> they are attached to the Gāyatrī.  
> For them, for the Vasu gods, the Gāyatrī milks out desires, wish upon wish, syllable by syllable;  
> even so she milks for him who makes the offering.  
> He conquers the Gāyatrī among meters, the Vasu gods among gods.  
> He ascends to union, to co-existence with the Vasu gods, who, knowing thus, offers the fire-offering.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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