[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) › 2-5.182 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-5.182 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-5.182 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-5.182](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.182) na grāme nāraṇye tisro yanna grāme nāraṇye'nnādyaṃ tadeva tābhiḥ jane tisro janyaṃ tābhiḥ sajane tisraḥ sajanyaṃ tābhiḥ tā dvādaśa saṃpadyante dvādaśa māsāssaṃvatsaraḥ saṃvatsarādevānnādyamavarunddhe rohiṇīṃ chaviṃ paridhatte eṣā ha vā agre paśūnāṃ tvagāsa yā puruṣasya yā paśūnāṃ sā puruṣasya te paśava ātapaṃ varṣaṃ daśānmaśakānna dhārayanti te puruṣametyābruvanpuruṣeyaṃ tava tvagastveṣāsmākamiti kiṃ tata syāditi ādyā te syāma ityabruvan idaṃ te vāsa iti vāsaḥ prāyacchan tadyadrohiṇīṃ chaviṃ paridhatte svenaiva tadrūpeṇa samṛdhyate tathā hainamamuṣmim̐lloke paśavo nādanti adanti ha vā amuṣmim̐lloke paśavaḥ puruṣam tasmādu ha gorante nagno na syāt īśvaro hāsmādapakramitostvacamasya bibharmīti > \[He spends\] three \[nights\] neither in the village nor in the wilderness: whatever food is neither in the village nor in the wilderness, he secures precisely that by means of these \[nights\]. > \[He spends\] three \[nights\] among \[foreign\] people: \[he secures\] the food belonging to \[foreign\] people by means of these. > \[He spends\] three \[nights\] among his own people: \[he secures\] the food belonging to his own people by means of these. > They amount to twelve. > Twelve months are the year. > From the year itself he secures food. > He puts on a reddish-brown hide. > In the beginning, this \[hide\] of man was the skin of cattle, and that of cattle was of man. > Those cattle could not endure the heat, the rain, the gadflies, and the mosquitoes. > They approached man and said, 'Man, let this skin of yours be ours, and this \[skin of ours be yours\].' > \[He said,\] 'What would come of that for me?' > 'We shall be food for you,' they said. > 'This is your garment,' \[saying this,\] they gave him the garment. > When he puts on a reddish-brown hide, he prospers with his own natural form. > Then the cattle do not eat him in yonder world. > For cattle indeed eat man in yonder world. > Therefore one should not be naked near a cow, > \[thinking,\] 'She might run away from me, saying, "I am wearing his skin."' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.182.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.182.p1) sā sapucchā bhavati kṛtsnatvāya > It has its tail, for completeness. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.182.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.182.p2) atho sarve vāva sma prājāptyāḥ > Moreover, we all belong indeed to Prajāpati. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.182.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.182.p3) yastvāva putrāṇāṃ kṛpaṇatamo bhavati sa piturhṛdayamāvyayati > Whichever of the sons is most pitiable touches his father's heart. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.182.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.182.p4) kṛpaṇatāmivaiṣa nyeti yassarvaṃ dadātīti gacchati prajāpateranubodham > He who gives all \[his wealth\] undergoes, as it were, a state of pity; \[thus\] he attains the sympathy of Prajāpati. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-5.182) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.182](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.182) · Pramāṇa