<!-- Pramāṇa, a library of Indian primary sources · https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.76 -->

[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) › 1.76

# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.76

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.76

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.76)

tadāhuḥ adhvaryo kiṃ stutaṃ stotraṃ hotā prātaranuvākenānvaśaṃsīditi  
akarma vayaṃ tadyadasmākaṃ karma ityāha hotāraṃ pṛcchata iti  
hotaḥ kiṃ stutaṃ stotraṃ prātaranuvākenānvaśaṃsīḥ iti  
akarma vayaṃ tadyadasmākaṃ karma ityāha udgātāraṃ pṛcchata iti  
udgātaḥ kiṃ stutaṃ stotraṃ hotā prātaranuvākenānvaśaṃsīditi  
akarma vayaṃ tadyadasmākaṃ karma iti brūyādagāsiṣma yadatra geyamiti  
taṃ yadi brūyuḥ tamāṃsi vā agāsīrna jyotīṃṣi agāsiṣaṃ yuṣmāneva tamasā  
pāpmanā vidhyāni iti  
tamasā caivaināṃstatpāpmanā ca vidhyati

> Regarding this, they say: ‘O Adhvaryu, what chant that was chanted did the Hotṛ recite after with the morning litany?’ He should say: ‘We have done that which was our work; ask the Hotṛ.’ ‘O Hotṛ, what chant that was chanted did you recite after with the morning litany?’ He should say: ‘We have done that which was our work; ask the Udgātṛ.’ ‘O Udgātṛ, what chant that was chanted did the Hotṛ recite after with the morning litany?’ He should say: ‘We have done that which was our work; we have sung what was to be sung here.’ If they should say to him: ‘You have sung darknesses, not lights,’ \[he should say\]: ‘I have sung so that I may strike you with darkness and with evil!’ And he indeed strikes them with darkness and with evil.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

- [Previous: 1.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.75)
- [Next: 1.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.77)
- [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.1.76) — English, machine translation

---
Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.76) · Pramāṇa
