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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 18.85

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 18.85

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [18.85](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.18.85)

prāṇo vai stotriyo'pāno'nurūpaḥ  
prāṇāpānābhyāmevaitatsamṛdhya prayanti  
pra te sargā asṛkṣata sūryasyeva na raśmaya  
iti sargaśa iva vai paśavassṛjyante  
paśavaśśakvaryaḥ  
ketuṃ kṛṇvandivaspari viśvā sūpābhyarṣasī  
tyabhīti bhavati rathantarasya rūpam  
rāthantarametadahaḥ  
samudrassoma pinvasa iti samudravatīrbhavantyāpo hyetadahaḥ  
jajñāno vācamiṣyasī  
ti jāyate vai pūrveṇāhnā  
jajñāna evaitena tasmāj  
jajñāno vācamiṣyasī  
ti bhavati  
pavamāna vidharmaṇi  
krandaṃ devo na sūryaḥ  
iti sauryaṃ rūpaṃ mahānāmnīnāmupagacchanti  
sauryā hi mahānāmnayaḥ

> The stotriya is the in-breath, and the corresponding triplet is the out-breath. / Through in-breath and out-breath they thus proceed prospering. / ‘Forward your gushes have been poured out like the rays of the sun’—like gushes, indeed, cattle are brought forth. / The Śakvarī verses are cattle. / ‘Making a banner beyond heaven, you stream towards all \[waters\]’—‘towards’ is the characteristic mark of the Rathantara. / This day belongs to the Rathantara. / ‘O Soma, you swell as an ocean’—there are \[verses\] containing ‘ocean’, for this day is waters. / ‘Being born, you send forth speech’—one is indeed born through the preceding day. / Being born, he \[sends forth speech\] through this; therefore it is: / ‘Being born, you send forth speech.’ / ‘O Pavamāna, in the distribution \[of the sacrifice\], / roaring like the divine sun’—thus they attain the solar characteristic mark of the Mahānāmnī verses, / for the Mahānāmnī verses are solar.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [18.85.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.18.85.p1)

pra somāso adhanviṣuḥ pavamānāsa indavaḥ

> ‘Forward have run the Soma drops, flowing clear, bright drops;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [18.85.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.18.85.p2)

śrīṇānā apsu vṛñjate

> mixing \[themselves\], they turn within the waters.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [18.85.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.18.85.p3)

abhi gāvo adhanviṣurāpo na pravatā yatīḥ

> Towards \[him\] the cows have run, like waters running down a slope;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [18.85.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.18.85.p4)

punānā indramāśata

> becoming purified, they have reached Indra’—  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [18.85.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.18.85.p5)

ityāpa āpa iti bhavatyāpo hyetadahaḥ

> here there is ‘waters’, ‘waters’, for this day is waters.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.18.85) — English, machine translation

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