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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-3.91

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-3.91

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2-3.91](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.91)

ta etaṃ pṛtanājitaṃ yajñamapaśyan  
tamāharan  
tenāyajanta  
tato vai te tāṃ pṛtanāmajayan  
yatpṛtanāmajayaṃstatpṛtanājitaḥ pṛtanājittvam  
jayati pṛtanāṃ dviṣantaṃ bhrātṛvyaṃ ya evaṃ veda  
sa caturviṃśo bhavati  
caturviṃśatyardhamāsassaṃvatsaraḥ  
saṃvatsarādevaināṃstadajayan  
tasya rathantaraṃ pṛṣṭhaṃ bhavati  
idaṃ vai rathantaram  
asmādevaināṃstallokādajayan  
tasya dvādaśa stotrāṇi bhavanti  
dvādaśa māsāssaṃvatsaraḥ  
māsaśa evaināṃstatsaṃvatsarādajayan  
tasya caturviṃśati stutaśastrāṇi bhavanti  
caturviṃśatyardhamāsassaṃvatsaraḥ  
ardhamāsaśa evaināṃstatsaṃvatsarādajayan

> They saw this sacrifice, the Pṛtanājit.  
> They grasped it.  
> They sacrificed with it.  
> Thereupon they conquered that army.  
> Because they conquered the army, that is the Pṛtanājit-nature of the Pṛtanājit.  
> He who knows thus conquers the army and the spiteful rival.  
> It consists of twenty-four \[parts\].  
> The year consists of twenty-four half-months.  
> From the year they conquered them then.  
> Its pṛṣṭha is the Rathantara \[sāman\].  
> This \[earth\] indeed is the Rathantara.  
> From this world they conquered them then.  
> It has twelve stotras.  
> The year has twelve months.  
> Month by month they conquered them from the year then.  
> It has twenty-four chanted verses and recitations.  
> The year consists of twenty-four half-months.  
> Half-month by half-month they conquered them from the year then.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.91.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.91.p1)

te jitāḥ pañcaviṃśameva pitaraṃ prajāpatiṃ prāpadyantāmuṃ ca lokam

> Defeated, they fled to their father Prajāpati, who is the twenty-fifth, and to yonder world.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-3.91.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-3.91.p2)

tānakāmayantāta enānsatrā jayemeti

> They \[the gods\] desired: 'May we conquer them completely (satrā) from there!'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-3.91) — English, machine translation

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