[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) › 18.86 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 18.86 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 18.86 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [18.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.18.86) pra pavamāna dhanvasi somendrāya mādanaḥ nṛbhiryato vi nīyase iti saptarcaṃ bhavati sapta vai prāṇāḥ prāṇairevaitatsamṛdhyamānā yanti | prāṇeṣu pratitiṣṭhantaḥ tadāhuryatsaptarcaṃ saptamasyāhno rūpamatha kasmātpañcame'hankriyata iti sa brūyātsaptapadā vai śakvaryas | sapta grāmyāḥ paśavas | sapta caturuttarāṇi chandāṃsi | sapta mukhyāḥ prāṇās | saptaviṃśatirdivyāni nakṣatrāṇi | saptaviṃśametadahar | etasyaiva sarvasyāvaruddhyā etasyopāptyā iti uttaraṃ saptarcaṃ bhavati abhipūrvamevaitatprāṇaissamṛdhyamānā yanti cautṛcaṃ bhavati catuṣpadā vai paśavaḥ paśava etadahaḥ paśūnāmevāvaruddhyai paryāso bhavati prajānāṃ dhṛtyai paśūnāmupasthityai triṇava stomo bhavati triṇavā ime lokāḥ eṣvevaitallokeṣu pratitiṣṭhanto yanti > ‘Run forward, O Pavamāna, the exhilarating Soma for Indra; / guided by men, you are led forth’— / this becomes a seven-verse hymn. / The breaths are seven. / Prospering through the breaths they proceed, standing firm in the breaths. / Then they say: ‘Since a seven-verse hymn is the characteristic mark of the seventh day, why then is it performed on the fifth day?’ / He should say: ‘The Śakvarī verses have seven metrical feet; the domestic cattle are seven; the meters increasing by four syllables are seven; the principal breaths are seven; the heavenly constellations are twenty-seven; this day is twenty-seven\[-fold\]. It is for obtaining all this, for attaining this.’ / The next hymn is a seven-verse hymn. / In regular order, prospering through the breaths, they proceed. / A four-verse hymn occurs: cattle are four-footed. / This day is cattle, \[and this is\] for the attainment of cattle. / There is a concluding verse, for the preservation of offspring and the securing of cattle. / The stoma is the twenty-seven-fold \[stoma\]. / These worlds are twenty-seven-fold. / In these very worlds they proceed, standing firm. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.86.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.18.86.p1) bhūriti vyāhṛtiḥ > ‘Bhūḥ’ is the mystical utterance. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.86.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.18.86.p2) tadayaṃ loko'gnirdevatā gāyatrī chandastrivṛtstomo rathantaraṃ sāma vasavo devatā > It is this world: Agni is the deity, Gāyatrī the meter, the trivṛt the stoma, Rathantara the sāman, the Vasus the deities, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [18.86.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.18.86.p3) vanaspatayaścauṣadhayaśca > and the trees and herbs. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.18.86) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.18.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.18.86) · Pramāṇa