Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-3.75
Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-3.75
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- Sanskrit
2-3.75
ekaikamu ha vā eteṣāmakṣarāṇāṃ yāvatīyaṃ pṛthivī tāvat
ūrjo'nnādyasya madhuno'mṛtasya kāmasya-kāmasya pibdamānaṃ tiṣṭhati
taddhaivaṃvidvānbrāhmaṇassahasraṃ-sahasraṃ devayugānyupajīvati
tadyadāpyate'thetaradupasaṃkrāmatyathetaratpunarākhyāyate
tasmādu haivaṃvide brāhmaṇāya ditsantyasyorjo'nnādyasya madhuno'mṛtasya
kāmasya-kāmasya lipsāmahā iti
yathā ha vā idaṃ kṣetrapādaṃ vā kṣetrarajjuṃ vāvakrīyāsata evamevaivaṃvido
brāhmaṇāllokamavakrīṇate
sa yathā kraye paryavete kṣetriṇameva kṣetrāṇyapiyantyevaṃ lokinameva lokā
apiyanti
sa yaddha vā apyevaṃvidvānbrāhmaṇaḥ pūrṇāṃ pṛthivīṃ pratigṛhṇīyādekameva tasyākṣaraṃ
jyāyaḥ
tasmādu haivaṃvidvānbrāhmaṇo dadyāccaiva pratigṛhṇīyāt
Indeed, each one of these syllables stands swelling with vigor, with food, with honey, with immortality, with every desire, as great as this earth.
A Brahmin who knows thus lives through a thousand divine ages each [from them].
When that is exhausted, then he passes on to another, and then another is related again.
Therefore they wish to give to a Brahmin who knows thus, [saying]: "May we obtain vigor, food, honey, immortality, and every desire from him."
Just as here they might sit down having leased a quarter of a field or a measuring-cord of a field, in the same way they lease a world from a Brahmin who knows thus.
Just as when the lease has expired the fields go back to the owner of the field alone, so the worlds go back to the owner of the world alone.
If indeed even a Brahmin who knows thus should receive the earth full [of wealth], a single syllable of his is superior.
Therefore a Brahmin who knows thus should both give and receive.
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