[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) › 2-4.148 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-4.148 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-4.148 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-4.148](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-4.148) athaiṣa upahavyaḥ prajāpatiḥ prajā asṛjata tāsāṃ sṛṣṭānāṃ nāvenno eva prajā aviduḥ prajāpatirno'sṛṣṭeti sa ṣakṣata kathaṃ nvimā ahaṃ prajāssṛjeya tāsāṃ sṛṣṭānāṃ na vidyāmiti sa etaṃ yajñamapaśyat tamāharat tenāyajata tato'nenaiva tā upāhvayata yadupāhvayata tadupahavyasyopahavyatvam sa saptadaśo'niruktāsu bhavati yathā ha vai vanākakṣā evaṃ saptadaśo'niruktāsu sa yathā vanākakṣānparītyāvirbhavedevamevaitābhirdṛṣṭavatībhirāvirbabhūva yadadarṣi gātuvittama ityetāsu dṛṣṭavatīṣvagniṣṭomasāma bhavati tato vai taṃ tā avidurasya vai vayaṃ smo'yaṃ vā asmākamāseti atho hābhyo'nnameva bhūto dadṛśe tā enamannakāśinīḥ prajā abhyupāvavṛtuḥ tadyasmādrājanyādviśo'pakrāmeyurbrāhmaṇādvā sajātāssa etena yajeta tasminnṛtvija upahvayeta etā u ha vai yajamānasya viśo yadṛtvijaḥ > Now comes this Upahavya \[rite\]. > Prajāpati created creatures. > When they were created, he did not know \[them\], nor did the creatures know: ‘Prajāpati has created us.’ > He considered: ‘How now may I create these creatures, yet having created them, not know them?’ > He saw this sacrifice. > He grasped it. > He sacrificed with it. > Then through it he called them toward himself \[upāhvayata\]. > In that he called them toward himself, that is the Upahavya nature of the Upahavya. > It is seventeenfold upon undefined \[verses\]. > Just as there are dense forests, so is the seventeenfold upon undefined \[verses\]. > Just as he might appear having circumvented the dense forests, even so he appeared through these \[verses\] containing \[the word\] ‘seen’ \[dṛṣṭa\]. > Upon these \[verses\] containing ‘seen’, ‘Since thou hast been seen, best finder of a path…’, the Agniṣṭoma-sāman is based. > Then indeed they knew him: ‘Verily, we are his; he was indeed ours.’ > Moreover, having become food, he appeared to them. > Those creatures, seeing food, turned toward him. > Therefore, from whatever Rājanya the subjects depart, or from whatever Brahmin his kinsmen \[depart\], he should sacrifice with this. > At that \[sacrifice\] he should call in the officiating priests toward himself. > For these officiating priests are the subjects of the sacrificer. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2-4.147](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-4.147) - [Next: 2-4.149](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-4.149) - [Up: 2-4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-4) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-4.148) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-4.148](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-4.148) · Pramāṇa