[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) › 1.88 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 1.88 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 1.88 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.88](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88) sa yaddhiṃkṛtyenoṃkuryātparāṅdevānnādyamiyāt yatsāma prathamamabhivyāharetkṣatraṃ balamṛcchet kṣatraṃ hi sāma yadṛcaṃ prathamamabhivyāharedviśaṃ balamṛcchet vyiṛk yadyajuḥ prathamamabhivyāharati brahma vai yajurbrahmavarcasametatkaroti bhūrbhuvassvaḥ madhu kariṣyāmi madhu janayiṣyāmi madhu bhaviṣyati bhadraṃbhadram iṣamūrjamiti yadbhūrbhuvassvaḥ ityetadvai brahmaitadyajuḥ yanmadhu kariṣyāmi iti prajā vai madhu tā eva tatkaroti yanmadhu janayiṣyāmi iti praivaināstajjanayati yanmadhu bhaviṣyati iti bhūtimevaināstadgamayati bhadraṃbhadramiti yadvai puruṣasya vittadbhadraṃ gṛhā bhadraṃ prajā bhadraṃ paśavo bhadraṃ tadevaitenāvarunddhe iṣamūrjamiti varṣaṃ vā iṣe yadupariṣṭādvarṣasyaidhate tadūrje tadevaitenāvarunddhe > If he were to utter the sound hiṃ without uttering om, food would go away from him. / If he were to utter a sāman first, power would go to the nobility, / for the sāman is nobility. / If he were to utter a verse first, power would go to the people, / for a verse is the people. / When he utters a sacrificial formula first—the sacrificial formula is brahman—he thereby brings about spiritual luster. / 'Earth, atmosphere, heaven! / I will make sweetness; / I will produce sweetness; / sweetness there shall be; / welfare upon welfare; / food and sap!' / As for 'Earth, atmosphere, heaven!', this is the brahman, this is the sacrificial formula. / As for 'I will make sweetness', progeny is sweetness; he thereby makes them. / As for 'I will produce sweetness', he thereby generates them. / As for 'sweetness there shall be', he thereby leads them to prosperity. / As for 'welfare upon welfare', whatever is a man's possession, that is welfare: houses are welfare, children are welfare, cattle are welfare; that he thereby secures. / As for 'food and sap', rain is food; what thrives after rain, that is sap; that he thereby secures. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p1) prajāpatiṃ kalpayitvodgāyet > Having arranged Prajāpati, he should sing. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p2) yo ha vai prajāpatiṃ kalpayitvodgāyati kalpate'smai diśaḥ pradiśa ādiśo > He who sings having arranged Prajāpati, for him \[the worlds\] are arranged: 'The quarters, the intermediate quarters, the principal quarters, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p3) vidiśa uddiśo diśa iti > the divergent quarters, the upper quarters, the quarters.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p4) diśo vai prajāpatiḥ > The quarters are Prajāpati. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p5) prajāpatimeva tatkalpayitvodgāyati > He thus sings having arranged Prajāpati. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p6) kalpate'smai ya evaṃ veda > Things are arranged for him who knows thus. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p7) kapivano ha smāha bhauvāyanaḥ kiṃ te yajñaṃ gacchanti yadeva somasyābhakṣayitvā > Kapivana Bhauvāyana used to say: 'Do they go to the sacrifice who, without having consumed the soma, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p8) pra vā sarpanti pra vā dhāvayantīti > creep forth or make \[horses\] run?' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p9) bahiṣpavamānamupasanneṣu brūyādyaṃ brahmāṇaṃ śucimiva manyetāharahastamiti > When they have approached for the Bahiṣpavamāna, one should say day after day to whichever Brahmin one considers to be pure: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p10) tena samupahūyāthānumantrayeta > Having shared the invitation with him, he should then pronounce over \[it\]: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p11) yo devānāmiha somapītho'sminyajñe barhiṣi vedyām > “Whatever drinking of Soma belongs to the gods here, at this sacrifice, on the sacrificial grass, on the altar, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p12) tasyedaṃ bhakṣayāmasi > of that we consume this.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p13) iti ### [1.88.p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p14) yadi ca ha pradhāvayati yadi ca nātha hāsya bhakṣita eva devassomo bhavati > Whether he runs forward or whether he does not, then divine Soma is indeed consumed for him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p15) etadāyatanā vā āraṇyāḥ paśavaḥ > These wild cattle have this \[realm\] as their domain. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p16) yadbahiṣpavamānamaraṇye stuvanti tasmādāraṇyāḥ paśavo'raṇyaṃ sacante > Because they chant the Bahiṣpavamāna in the wilderness, therefore wild cattle frequent the wilderness. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p17) parācīṣu stuvanti > They chant on \[verses\] turned away. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p18) tasmādāraṇyāḥ paśavo'raṇyādevāraṇyamabhiprerate > Therefore wild cattle move forward from wilderness to wilderness. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [1.88.p19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.88.p19) ekarūpāsu stuvanti > They chant on \[verses\] of uniform form. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English 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