[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) › 2-5.187 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-5.187 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-5.187 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-5.187](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.187) tadāhuḥ pāpavasyasamiva vā etatkriyate yadbṛhadrathantare abhito bhavato madhye pṛṣṭhāni yathā vai pāpīyāṃsamuparyāsīnaṃ śreyānadhastādupāsīta tādṛktadyadete bṛhadrathantare abhito bhavato madhye pṛṣṭhānīti bṛhadrathantare eva madhye syātāmabhitaḥ pṛṣṭhāni pāpavasyasasya vyāvṛttyai atho yathā śreyāṃsamuparyāsīnaṃ pāpīyānadhastādupāsīta tādṛktadyadbṛhadrathantare madhye bhavato'bhitaḥ pṛṣṭhānīti asarvapṛṣṭho ha tu tathā syāt sarveṣāṃ vai pṛṣṭhānāṃ vairājameva pūrvaṃ yogamānaśe atho yadyapi caramaṃ yantaṃ pṛccheyurupa pṛṣṭhānyagūrṇā iti netyeva brūyāt bṛhadrathantare evābhita syātāṃ madhye pṛṣṭhāni sarvapṛṣṭhatāyai idaṃ vai rathantaramado bṛhat paśavaḥ pṛṣṭhāni ābhyāmevaitallokābhyāmubhayataḥ paśūnparigṛhṇīte'parāvāpāya nāsya vittaṃ paropyate ya evaṃ veda > In this regard they say: 'It is done as if in confusion of better and worse when the Bṛhat and Rathantara are on both sides and the \[other\] pṛṣṭhas in the middle. > Just as a better man might sit below serving a worse man sitting above, such is it when the Bṛhat and Rathantara are on both sides and the pṛṣṭhas in the middle. > Let the Bṛhat and Rathantara be in the middle and the \[other\] pṛṣṭhas on both sides, to avoid the confusion of better and worse. > Moreover, just as a worse man might sit below serving a better man sitting above, such is it when the Bṛhat and Rathantara are in the middle and the \[other\] pṛṣṭhas on both sides.' > In that case, however, he would not possess all the pṛṣṭhas. > Among all the pṛṣṭhas, the Vairāja alone attained the first yoking. > Furthermore, even if they should ask him who goes last, 'Have the pṛṣṭhas been completely praised?', he should say simply 'No.' > The Bṛhat and Rathantara should be on both sides and the \[other\] pṛṣṭhas in the middle, for the possession of all the pṛṣṭhas. > The Rathantara is this \[world\], the Bṛhat is yonder \[world\]. > The pṛṣṭhas are cattle. > By means of these two worlds he grasps the cattle on both sides, so that they do not slip away. > His property is not scattered away, who knows thus. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.187.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.187.p1) atho yathā pitā mātaivaṃ bṛhadrathantare yathā putrā evaṃ pṛṣṭhāni > And just as a father and a mother, so are the Bṛhat and Rathantara; just as sons, so are the \[other\] pṛṣṭhas. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.187.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.187.p2) yadvai putro'tipādayati pitā vai tasya śamayitā pitā niṣeddhā > Whatever wrong a son commits, the father is its pacifier, the father is its restrainer. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.187.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.187.p3) tadyadbṛhadrathantare abhito bhavataśśāntyā eva niṣiddhyai > Therefore, when the Bṛhat and Rathantara are on both sides, it is for pacification \[and\] warding off. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.187.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.187.p4) atho yathā pitarau putrānabhitaḥ pariśayīyātāṃ tādṛktadyadbṛhadrathantare abhito > Moreover, just as two parents would lie down on both sides around their children, like that it is when the Bṛhat and Rathantara are on both sides, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-5.187.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.187.p5) bhavato madhye pṛṣṭhāni > and the pṛṣṭhas are in the middle. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-5.187) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.187](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-5.187) · Pramāṇa