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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 14.61

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 14.61

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [14.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.14.61)

iti hinvantīva vai jātam  
jāyata u etenāhnā  
svasāro jāmayaspatimitīmā ha vāva svasāraḥ  
imā u eva jāmayaḥ  
mahāminduṃ mahīyuva  
itīmā ha vāva mahīyuvaḥ  
tā evainametaddhinvanti  
pavamāna rucāruce  
ti rukmatsauryarūpamupagacchanti  
sauryaṃ hyetadaharekaviṃśaṃ pratiṣṭhā vairājam  
ā pavamāna suṣṭutiṃ vṛṣṭiṃ devebhyo duvaḥ  
iṣe pavasva saṃyatamiti paryāso bhavati prajānāṃ dhṛtyai paśūnāmupasthityai  
ekaviṃśa stomo bhavati  
dvādaśa māsāḥ | pañcartavas | traya ime lokā | asāvāditya ekaviṃśaḥ  
tāssaṃstutā dvādaśa jagatyo bhavanti  
tāścaturviṃśatirgāyatryaḥ  
tā aṣṭādaśānuṣṭubhaḥ  
ānuṣṭubhametadahaḥ

> by saying “they urge on,” they urge on, as it were, what is born;  
> and it is born through this day.  
> “Sisters, kin, their lord” — these indeed are the sisters,  
> these indeed are the kin.  
> “The great drop, yearning for greatness” —  
> these indeed are the ones yearning for greatness.  
> These indeed urge it on.  
> “O Pavamāna, with brilliance to brilliance” —  
> by \[saying\] “with gold” they attain the form of the sun.  
> For this day is dedicated to Sūrya, twenty-one-fold, a firm foundation, belonging to the Virāj.  
> “O Pavamāna, \[bring\] fair praise, rain to the gods, worship; / flow for refreshment in an orderly stream” — this is the concluding verse, for the support of offspring, for the standing firm of cattle.  
> The stoma is twenty-one-fold.  
> Twelve are the months; five are the seasons; three are these worlds; that sun is the twenty-first.  
> These, being praised together, become twelve Jagatīs;  
> they are twenty-four Gāyatrīs;  
> they are eighteen Anuṣṭubhs.  
> This day belongs to the Anuṣṭubh.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.61.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.14.61.p1)

janasya gopā ajaniṣṭa jāgṛvir

> “The watchful guardian of the people has been born” —  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.61.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.14.61.p2)

ityāgneyamājyaṃ bhavati janadvat

> thus the ājya-śastra belongs to Agni \[and\] contains the word “people” (jana-).  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.61.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.14.61.p3)

eṣa ha vāva janasya gopāḥ

> He, indeed, is the guardian of the people.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.61.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.14.61.p4)

tamevaitatprātassavanātprajanayanti

> Him they engender here from the morning pressing.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.61.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.14.61.p5)

taṃ prajātaṃ mādhyandine savane manthanti

> Him, when born, they churn at the midday pressing.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.61.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.14.61.p6)

agnir

> “Agni” —  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.61.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.14.61.p7)

iti nirevainaṃ tadāha

> thereby he expressly names him.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.61.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.14.61.p8)

sudakṣassuvitāya navyasa

> “Very skillful, for a newer happy path” —  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.61.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.14.61.p9)

iti prāṇā vai dakṣaḥ

> skill, truly, is the breaths.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.61.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.14.61.p10)

prāṇānevāsmiṃstaddadhati

> They thereby place the breaths in him.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.61.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.14.61.p11)

ghṛtapratīka

> “Ghee-faced” —  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.61.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.14.61.p12)

ityetadvā agneḥ priyaṃ dhāma yadghṛtaṃ priyeṇaivainaṃ taddhāmnā samardhayanti

> this, truly, is Agni's dear domain, namely ghee; with his dear domain they thus make him flourish.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [14.61.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.14.61.p13)

bṛhatā divispṛśe

> “Touching heaven with the Bṛhant” —  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.14.61) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Kāṭhakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*kathaka.20.7) — Sanskrit

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