[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) › 17.80 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 17.80 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 17.80 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [17.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.17.80) tāsu nānadam nānadena vā indro vṛtraṃ nānadyamānamahan yannānadyamānamahaṃstannānadasya nānadatvam nānadyamānamevaitena dviṣantaṃ bhrātṛvyaṃ hanti ya evaṃ veda tasya ṣoḍaśabhirakṣaraiḥ prastauti ṣoḍaśinamevaitena pratyakṣamārabhante aupoditirha smāha gaupālayo viśālaṃ libujayābhyadhāt anuṣṭubhi nānadamakṛdgaurivītena ṣoḍaśinamatuṣṭuvan | na śriyāvapadya iti na ha vai śriyāvapadyate ya evaṃ veda tadu śvastanavadapi prajayā upakḷhaptam athāndhīgavaṃ vairājaṃ sāma vairāje'hankriyate | vairāja evānnādyasyāvaruddhyai tasyaitāṃ daśākṣarāṃ virājaṃ madhyata upayanti daśākṣarā virāḍ | annaṃ virāḍ virāja evānnādyasyāvaruddhyai somaḥ pavate janitā matīnāṃ janitā divo janitā pṛthivyāḥ janitāgnerjanitā sūryasya janitendrasya janitota viṣṇoḥ iti janitā janiteti bhavati ṣoḍaśinamevaitattṛtīyasavanātprajanayanti yathā bādhasva bādhasva jāyasva jāyasvetyevamevaitadabhipūrvaṃ tṛtīyasavanātṣoḍaśinaṃ prajanayanti > On these \[verses is chanted\] the Nānada. > With the Nānada, Indra struck Vṛtra while he was loudly roaring (nānadyamāna). > Because he struck him while loudly roaring, that is the nature of the Nānada. > He who knows this strikes down his roaring hateful enemy with this \[sāman\]. > He introduces it with sixteen syllables. > Thereby they tangibly grasp the Ṣoḍaśin. > Aupoditi Gaupālayo used to say: 'He girdled the broad \[tree\] with a creeping vine; > he made the Nānada on the Anuṣṭubh, and chanted praise to the Ṣoḍaśin with the Gaurīvīta, \[saying,\] "I shall not fall away from prosperity."' > He who knows this does not fall away from prosperity. > Moreover, that is also prepared through offspring for the following days. > Then the Āndhīgava, a Vairāja sāman, is performed on the Vairāja day, to secure Virāj and food. > In the middle of it, they approach this ten-syllable Virāj; the Virāj has ten syllables, Virāj is food, > to secure Virāj and food. > 'Soma purifies himself, generator of thoughts, generator of heaven, generator of earth, > generator of fire, generator of the sun, generator of Indra, and generator of Viṣṇu'— > thus it goes 'generator, generator.' > Thereby they generate the Ṣoḍaśin from the third pressing. > Just as one says, 'Urge, urge! Be born, be born!', even so in regular succession they generate the Ṣoḍaśin from the third pressing. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [17.80.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.17.80.p1) tāsu vātsapram vatsapriyaṃ vai bhālandanaṃ pratisatriṇo'bādhanta stenaste piteti so'kāmayata śraddhāṃ vindeyopa māṃ hvayeranniti sa etatsāmāpaśyat tenāstuta tato vai sa śraddhāmupahavamavindata śraddhāṃ vindāmahā iti satramāsate śraddhāmeva vindante vairājasya ha khalu vā etadanurūpaṃ sāma yathā ha vai vairājasya stobhāḥ padavṛttaya evaṃ ha vai vātsaprasya stobhāḥ padavṛttayaḥ prajā ha vā eṣā vairājasya ā hāsyānurūpaḥ prajāyāṃ jāyate ya evaṃ veda etaddha vā enaṃ tadupajuhuvire'nurūpaṃ vairājasyāsṛṣṭeti tadanutunnaṃ bhavati anutunnādvai prajāḥ paśavaḥ prajāyante anutunnametasya vairājasyāhno rūpam tena vai rūpasamṛddham yadu vatsaprīrbhālandano'paśyattasmādvātsapramityākhyāyate > On these \[verses is chanted\] the Vātsapra. > Vatsaprī Bhālandana's fellow session-participants harassed him, saying: 'Your father was a thief.' > He desired: 'May I gain trust; may they invite me.' > He saw this sāman. > With it he chanted praise. > Thereupon he gained trust and an invitation. > They sit for a sacrificial session saying, 'May we gain trust.' > They indeed gain trust. > This sāman is indeed the counterpart of the Vairāja. > Just as the stobhas of the Vairāja consist of repetitions of verses, so too the stobhas of the Vātsapra consist of repetitions of verses. > This is indeed the offspring of the Vairāja. > To him who knows this, a counterpart is born in his offspring. > Then they invited him, saying: 'He has produced the counterpart of the Vairāja.' > It is unimpinged. > From what is unimpinged, offspring and cattle are born. > Unimpinged is the characteristic of this Vairāja day. > Thereby it is richly endowed with characteristic form. > And because Vatsaprī Bhālandana saw it, therefore it is called the Vātsapra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.17.80) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Kauthuma (Svādhyāya Maṇḍala edition, Pāraḍī)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.sama*kauthuma*satavalekar.11.6.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.17.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.17.80) · Pramāṇa