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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.80

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.80

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80)

rāṣṭraṃ vai droṇakalaśo viśo grāvāṇaḥ  
yaddroṇakalaśaśśithilassyādrāṣṭraṃ śithilaṃ syāt  
tadanu viśo viśamanu yajamāno yajamānamanu prajāḥ  
taṃ dṛṃhati devī tvā dhiṣaṇe nipātāṃ dhruve sadasi sīdeṣa ūrje sīda iti  
ime vai devī dhiṣaṇe idaṃ dhruvaṃ sadaḥ  
ebhirevainaṃ tallokairdṛṃhati iṣa ūrje sīda iti varṣaṃ vā iṣe yadupariṣṭādvarṣasyaidhate  
tadūrje tadevaitenāvarunddhe  
svarbhānurvā āsura ādityaṃ tamasāvidhyat  
taṃ devāścarṣayaścābhiṣajyan  
te'trimabruvannṛṣe tvamidamapajahīti  
tatheti  
tadatri apāhan  
te'bruvanyo nastamasā viddhebhyo jyotiravidajjyotirasya bhāgadheyamastviti  
tadetadatrihiraṇyaṃ hriyate  
śatamānaṃ ha sma purā hriyate  
athaitarhi yāvadeva kiyacca dadati tat  
etaddha vāva sarveṣu lokeṣu jyotiryaddhiraṇyam  
sarveṣu lokeṣu jyotirdhatte ya evaṃ vidvānatrihiraṇyaṃ dadāti

> The droṇakalaśa trough is the realm; the pressing-stones are the subjects. If the droṇakalaśa were to become loose, the realm would become loose; following that, the subjects; following the subjects, the sacrificer; following the sacrificer, the offspring. He makes it firm: 'May the two divine pressing-boards protect you! Sit in the firm sadas! Sit for food, for nourishment!' These two divine pressing-boards are indeed these \[two worlds\]; this firm sadas is this \[world\]. It is with these worlds that he makes it firm. 'Sit for food, for nourishment'—rain indeed is for food; that which grows after the rain, that is for nourishment; that is what he secures thereby. Svarbhānu the Āsura pierced the sun with darkness. The gods and the ṛṣis cured him. They said to Atri: 'O ṛṣi, strike this away!' 'So be it,' \[he said\]. Atri struck it away. They said: 'Whoever has found light for us who were pierced with darkness, let light be his share!' That is this gold given to an Atri that is brought. Formerly a hundred-māna weight used to be brought; but now they give whatever amount. For gold is indeed the light in all the worlds. He who, knowing thus, gives gold to an Atri establishes light in all the worlds.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.80.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80.p1)

sa yatprathamamapāhansā kṛṣṇāvirabhavat

> What he struck away first became a black ewe.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.80.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80.p2)

yaddvitīyamapāhansā dhūmrāvirabhavat

> What he struck away second became a smoky ewe.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.80.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80.p3)

yattṛtīyamapāhansā phālgunyavirabhavat

> What he struck away third became a reddish-white ewe.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.80.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80.p4)

sa yaṃ kāmayeta pāpīyānsyāditi kṛṣṇamasya pavitre'pyasyetpāpīyāneva bhavati

> If he should desire of someone, 'May he become worse,' he should throw black \[wool\] into his filter; he becomes worse indeed.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.80.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80.p5)

atha yaṃ kāmayeta nārvāṅna parassyāditi dhūmramasya pavitre'pyasyennaivārvāṅna

> Then, if he should desire of someone, 'May he be neither lower nor higher,' he should throw smoky \[wool\] into his filter; neither lower nor  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.80.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80.p6)

paro bhavati

> higher does he become.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.80.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80.p7)

atha yaṃ kāmayeta śreyānsyādrucamaśnuvīteti phālgunamasya pavitraṃ

> Then, if he should desire of someone, 'May he become better, may he attain brilliance,' he should make his filter of reddish-white \[wool\];  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.80.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80.p8)

kuryācchreyāneva bhavati rucamaśnute

> he becomes better indeed, he attains brilliance.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.80.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80.p9)

asti hi tatrāpyādityasya nyaktam

> For in that there is a trace of the sun as well.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.80.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80.p10)

tadantareṣe avahṛtya saṃmārṣṭi vasavastvā saṃmṛjantu gāyatreṇa chandasā

> Having taken it down between the two shafts, he wipes it: 'May the Vasus wipe you clean with the Gāyatrī meter!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.80.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80.p11)

rudrāstvā saṃmṛjantu traiṣṭubhena chandasā

> May the Rudras wipe you clean with the Triṣṭubh meter!  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.80.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80.p12)

ādityāstvā saṃmṛjantu jāgatena chandasā iti

> May the Ādityas wipe you clean with the Jagatī meter!'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.80.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80.p13)

tadtadudīcīnadaśaṃ pavitravatyā vitanoti pavitraṃ te vitataṃ brahmaṇaspate iti

> Then he spreads it out with the filter having fringes facing north: 'Your filter is spread out, O Brahmaṇaspati,'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.80.p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80.p14)

samaṣṭyai

> for complete attainment.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [1.80.p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.80.p15)

tapoṣpavitraṃ vitataṃ divaspade iti svargakāmasya

> 'Your heated filter is spread out in the seat of heaven,' \[he recites\] for one who desires the heavenly world.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.1.80) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Jaiminīyaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.jaiminiya.9.p8) — Sanskrit
- [Kalpaḥ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.post.vidhi.mantra.kalpah.2.4.2.13) — Sanskrit

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