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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-3.86

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-3.86

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2-3.86](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86)

pañcadaśaṃ ca saptadaśaṃ ca dve  
so'nuṣṭup  
eṣo ha vai chandasāṃ svārājyaṃ lokamānaśe yadanuṣṭup  
prajāpatirvā anuṣṭup  
prajāpatirvai svārājyam  
annamu vai virāṭ  
virājyeva tadannādye pratiṣṭhāya svārājyaṃ lokamagacchan  
virājyeva tadannādye pratiṣṭhāya svārājyaṃ lokaṃ gacchati ya evaṃ veda  
tasya bṛhatpṛṣṭhaṃ bhavati  
ado vai bṛhat  
ado vai svārājyam  
amumevaitena svārājyaṃ lokamagacchan  
amumevaitena svārājyaṃ lokaṃ gacchati ya evaṃ veda  
tasyendussamudramurviyā vibhātītyetadādiṣṭasāmārbhave pavamāne na bhavatīti  
divassāmaikāravadbhavati  
arvāṅiva hyasau lokaḥ  
stomameva tadrūpeṇa samardhayanti  
atho yadekāravadbhavati svargāllokānnetparāñco'tipadyāmahā iti

> The fifteen-verse and the seventeen-verse are two; that is an Anuṣṭubh. It was indeed the Anuṣṭubh among meters that attained the world of self-rule. Prajāpati is the Anuṣṭubh; Prajāpati is self-rule. Food is virāj. Having become established in virāj, proper food, they went to the world of self-rule. Having become established in virāj, proper food, he goes to the world of self-rule who knows thus. It has the Bṛhat as its pṛṣṭha. Yonder is the Bṛhat; yonder is self-rule. They went to yonder world of self-rule by this. He goes to yonder world of self-rule who knows thus. In its Ārbhava pavamāna the specified sāman 'The drop shines forth across the ocean wide' is not used; there is a sāman of heaven containing the word 'ika'. For yonder world is turned toward \[us\], as it were. They thus make the stoma prosperous by its proper form. Moreover, that it contains the word 'ika' is \[thought\]: 'Lest we fall away, turned away from the heavenly world.'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p1)

athaiṣa ṛṣabhaḥ

> Now this Ṛṣabha \[sacrifice\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p2)

indro vā akāmayata ṛṣabhassarvāsāṃ prajānāṃ syāmṛṣabhatāṃ gaccheyamiti

> Indra desired: 'May I be the bull of all creatures; may I attain bullship.'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p3)

sa etaṃ yajñamapaśyat

> He saw this sacrifice.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p4)

tamāharat

> He brought it.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p5)

tenāyajata

> He sacrificed with it.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p6)

tato vai sa ṛṣabhassarvāsāṃ prajānāmabhavadṛṣabhatāmagacchat

> Then indeed he became the bull of all creatures; he attained bullship.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p7)

ṛṣabha eva svānāṃ prajānāṃ bhavatyṛṣabhatāṃ gacchati ya evaṃ veda

> He becomes the bull of his own creatures and attains bullship who knows thus.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p8)

tacchrīrvā ṛṣabhaḥ

> That bull is fortune.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p9)

śriyaṃ vai sa tadagacchat

> He then indeed attained fortune.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p10)

ṛṣabho vai rājā manuṣyāṇām

> The bull \[among\] men is the king.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p11)

ṛṣabha ṛṣabhaḥ paśūnām

> The bull among cattle is the bull.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p12)

ṛṣabho'śvavṛṣo vaḷavānām

> The bull among mares is the stallion.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p13)

ṛṣabho basto'jānām

> The bull among goats is the he-goat.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p14)

ṛṣabho vṛṣṇiravīnām

> The bull among sheep is the ram.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p15)

ṛṣabhaḥ kṛṣṇa eṇīnām

> The bull among antelopes is the black buck.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.86.p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.86.p16)

ṛṣabha ṛṣyo rohitām

> The bull among deer is the stag.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-3.86) — English, machine translation

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