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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-4.159.p1

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-4.159.p1

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2-4.159.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-4.159.p1)

taṃ brahmaṇe dadāti  
brahmaṇo hyevaikadakṣiṇā  
tadāhurhuto deyā3 ahutā3 iti  
ahuta ityāhuḥ  
yātayāmeva vai tathā syādyaddhutaṃ dadyāditi  
tadu vā āhurhuta eva deyaḥ

> He gives it to the brahman priest; for the brahman priest has a single sacrificial gift. As to that they say, ‘Should it be given offered, or unoffered?’ They say, ‘Unoffered. For it would be exhausted (yātayāma), as it were, if he should give what is offered.’ But regarding that they also say, ‘It must indeed be given offered.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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