[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) › 2-3.126 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-3.126 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-3.126 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-3.126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.126) tena haitenodaraśśāṇḍilya iyakṣāṃ cakre tasya ha manasyevāsa ekatrikeṇa yajeyeti na ha tu kasmai canovāca atha hāsya jāyā gandharviṇyāsa tāṃ hāyaṃ gandharva upanyeyāya tāṃ hovācaikatrika iti vai yajñakraturdāruṇa ivāsti tena vai te patiryakṣyata iti sā heyaṃ patiṃ papracchaikatrika iti vai yajñakraturdāruṇa ivāsti satyaṃ tvaṃ tena yakṣyasā3 iti sa hovāca yadahamidaṃ naiva kasmai canāvocaṃ manasyeva me'bhūtkasta idamavocaditi yo māyaṃ gandharva upanyaitīti taṃ vai tvaṃ pṛcchatāditi hovāca yaṣṭavyaṃ tenā3 na yaṣṭavyā3miti taṃ ha papraccha yaṣṭavyaṃ tenā3 na yaṣṭavyā3miti sa hovāca yathā vā enaṃ sa vedaivamenaṃ vayaṃ vidmaḥ yastvasyetthaṃ stotraṃ vidyātsa enena yajeteti yathainenādaḥ prajāpatistuṣṭuve teno ha sa nopadadharṣa yaṣṭum > With this very rite Udara Śāṇḍilya desired to sacrifice. > It was in his mind alone: 'I would sacrifice with the Ekatrika.' > He did not speak to anyone. > Now his wife was possessed by a gandharva. > A gandharva approached her. > He said to her, 'There is a sacrificial rite called Ekatrika, quite terrible. > With it your husband is going to sacrifice.' > She asked her husband, 'There is a sacrificial rite called Ekatrika, quite terrible. > Is it true that you will sacrifice with it?' > He said, 'Since I did not speak of this to anyone, it was in my mind alone, who told you this?' > 'The gandharva who approaches me,' she said. > 'Do ask him,' he said, > '"Should one sacrifice with it, or should one not sacrifice with it?"' > She asked him, 'Should one sacrifice with it, or should one not sacrifice with it?' > He said, 'As he knows it, so we know it. > But whoever knows its stotra in this way—as Prajāpati praised with it yonder—he may sacrifice with it.' > Therefore he did not dare to sacrifice \[with it\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-3.126.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.126.p1) śaśvaddhodaraśśāṇḍilyastenaiva paṇāyyatāṃ jagāma yadasya manasyevāsaikatrikeṇa > Constantly Udara Śāṇḍilya became an object of praise for this very reason, that it was in his mind alone: 'With the Ekatrika > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-3.126.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.126.p2) yajeyeti > I would sacrifice.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-3.126.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.126.p3) sa vā eṣo'nyatara iva yajñakratussupaṇāyyo vaineneṣṭvā bhavati supāpīyānvā > This sacrificial rite is indeed of an either-or nature: having sacrificed with it, one becomes either very praiseworthy or very wretched. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-3.126.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.126.p4) tasyaikasyāṃ bahiṣpavamānaṃ saṃpadyate upāsmai gāyatā nara iti > Its bahiṣpavamāna consists of one \[verse\]: 'Sing unto him, O men' (upāsmai gāyata naraḥ). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-3.126.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.126.p5) tisṛṣu mādhyaṃdinaḥ pavamāno gāyatrameva gāyatryāmutsedhassatobṛhatyāṃ saiveḷā > The midday pavamāna is on three \[verses\]: the Gāyatra on a gāyatrī; the Utsedha on a satobṛhatī, having the same finale as the Iḷā; and the Auśana on a triṣṭubh. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-3.126.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.126.p6) tannidhanamāuśanameva triṣṭubhi > \[This triplet has\] its finale. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-3.126.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.126.p7) etasyāmārbhavaḥ pavamāno'yā rucā hariṇyā punāna iti > On this single \[verse\] is the ārbhava pavamāna: 'With this bright yellow brilliance, being purified' (ayā rucā hariṇyā punānaḥ). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-3.126.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.126.p8) etasyāmaticchandasi gāyatrapārśvam > On this aticchandas \[verse\] is the flank-piece of the Gāyatra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-3.126) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.126](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.126) · Pramāṇa