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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-3.115

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-3.115

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2-3.115](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.115)

athaiṣa sadyaḥkrīḥ  
te vṛtā nāpākrāman  
ta etyāyājayan  
tebhya etāṃ vācaṃ vaḷavāṃ śvetāṃ bhūtāṃ aśvābhidhānyabhihitāmānayannimāṃ  
pratigṛhṇīteti  
te'bruvañśreyasīyamasmanno imāmudyaṃsyāma iti  
sā kruddhā na mā pratyagṛhṇanniti siṃhyubhayatomukhī bhūtvordhvodakrāmat  
sobhayāndevāsurānantarātiṣṭhadyaṃ devānāmupāpnodyaṃ asurāṇāṃ tamādadānā  
tāmupaiva devā amantrayantopāsurāḥ  
sā devānabhyupāvartamānābravītkiṃ me tata syādyadvo'bhyupāvarteyeti  
pūrvāṃ tvāgnerāhutiraśnuvīteti  
tāmadhvare'vākalpayan  
saiṣottaravediḥ  
tāmetāṃ pūrvāmagnerāhutiraśnute

> Now this is the Sadyaḥkrī. / Chosen, they did not go away. / Having come, they performed the sacrifice. / To them they brought this Speech, having become a white mare, wearing a bridle, \[saying,\] "Accept this!" / They said: "She is superior to us; we shall not undertake \[to accept\] her." / Enraged that they did not accept her, having become a lioness with faces on both sides, she leaped upward. / She stood between both gods and asuras, seizing whomever she reached of the gods, whomever of the asuras. / The gods invited her, and the asuras invited her. / Turning toward the gods, she said: "What will there be for me if I turn toward you?" / "The oblation prior to Fire shall reach you." / They assigned her \[a place\] at the sacrificial rite. / That is this high altar (uttaravedi). / The oblation prior to Fire reaches that very one.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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