[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) › 2-5.172 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-5.172 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-5.172 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-5.172](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172) viḍvā ukthāni eṣa u ha vai dvitīyo rājā yatpurohitaḥ viśa u vā eṣa ṣaśvaryamādhipatyaṃ gacchati ya śriyamaśnute viśa ṣaśvaryamādhipatyaṃ gacchānīti tasmādukthyo bhavati atho haitadbrahmaṇe caiva kṣatrāya ca viśamanuyuvaṃ karoti tānyekaviṃśāni bhavanti dvādaśa māsāḥ pañcartavastraya ime lokā asāvāditya ekaviṃśaḥ eṣa u ha vai śrīḥ etāmeva tacchriyamantato'bhyārohati sa u eva sarvassaṃstuto gāyatrīmevābhisaṃpadyate brahma vai gāyatrī yado vai brahmavarcasamṛdhnotyatha sa tasya purodhāṃ gacchati sa yadā purodhāṃ gacchedatha kāmayetācyāvyo'syai purodhāyai syāṃ na cyaveyetyetasyaiva sataḥ pañcadaśaṃ brāhmaṇācchesina ājyaṃ kuryāttat brahma vai trivṛt kṣatraṃ pañcadaśaḥ tadetadbrahmaṇobhayataḥ kṣatraṃ parigṛhṇāti sa hācyāvyaḥ purodhāyai bhavati na cyavate > The ukthas are the people. > The chaplain is indeed a second king. > He who attains prosperity attains lordship and mastery over the people. > 'May I attain lordship and mastery over the people'—therefore it is an Ukthya. > And thus he unites the people with both the spiritual power and the nobility. > They are twenty-one-fold. > Twelve are the months, five the seasons, three these worlds; yonder sun is the twenty-first. > He is indeed prosperity. > To this very prosperity he ascends in the end. > And when all \[the stomas\] are chanted, it corresponds to the Gāyatrī. > The Gāyatrī is spiritual power. > When he thrives in spiritual luster, then he attains his chaplainship. > If, having attained the chaplainship, he should desire: 'May I be unshakeable from this chaplainship, may I not fall away,' then while it is just this, he should make the Brāhmaṇācchaṃsin's ājya \[stotra\] fifteenfold. > The threefold is spiritual power. > The fifteenfold is nobility. > Thus he encompasses the spiritual power on both sides with nobility. > He becomes unshakeable from the chaplainship; he does not fall away. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p1) athaiṣa gautamasya catuṣṭomaḥ > Now this is the Catuṣṭoma of Gautama. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p2) gautamo vā akāmayatāva paśūnrundhīya bhūmānaṃ paśūnāṃ gaccheyamiti > Gautama desired: 'May I secure cattle; may I attain an abundance of cattle.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p3) sa etaṃ yajñamapaśyat > He saw this sacrifice. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p4) tamāharat > He brought it forth. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p5) tenāyajata > He sacrificed with it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p6) tato vai so'va paśūnarundha bhūmānaṃ paśūnāmagacchat > Then indeed he secured cattle; he attained an abundance of cattle. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p7) sa yaḥ kāmayetāva paśūnrundhīya bhūmānaṃ paśūnāṃ gaccheyamiti sa etena yajeta > He who desires: 'May I secure cattle; may I attain an abundance of cattle'—let him sacrifice with this. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p8) ava haiva paśūnrunddhe bhūmānaṃ paśūnāṃ gacchati > He indeed secures cattle; he attains an abundance of cattle. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p9) tasya catasṛṣu bahiṣpavamānaṃ bhavati > Its Bahiṣpavamāna \[stotra\] is on four \[verses\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p10) catuṣpādā vā aśvāssantaścatuśśaphāḥ > Four-footed are horses, being four-hoofed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p11) te ye catuṣpādāḥ paśavaścatuśśaphāstānevaitenāvarunddhe > Those cattle that are four-footed and four-hoofed, precisely those he obtains by this. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p12) aṣṭāsvaṣṭāsvājyāni > The ājya \[stotras\] are on eight \[verses\] each. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p13) aṣṭāśaphā vai paśavaḥ > Cattle are eight-hoofed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p14) te ye'ṣṭāśaphāḥ paśavastānevaitenāvarunddhe > Those cattle that are eight-hoofed, precisely those he obtains by this. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p15) dvādaśo mādhyaṃdinaḥ > The midday \[pavamāna\] has twelve \[verses\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.172.p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172.p16) dvādaśākṣarā vai jagatī > The Jagatī indeed has twelve syllables. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-5.172) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.172) · Pramāṇa