[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) › 2-7.224 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-7.224 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-7.224 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-7.224](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.224) yajamānakāmo vā eṣa yadbrahmasāma sva eva tadāyatane yajamānaṃ kāmaissamardhayanti saptadaśaṃ hotuḥ pṛṣṭhaṃ bhavati prajāpatirvai saptadaśaḥ prajāpatimevaitanmadhyato viyanti ekaviṃśaṃ maitrāvaruṇasya dvādaśa māsāḥ pañcartavastraya ime lokā asāvāditya ekaviṃśaḥ etamevaitanmadhyato viyanti triṇavaṃ brāhmaṇācchesinaḥ triṇavā ime lokāḥ imānevaitallokānmadhyato viyanti ṣoḍaśamacchāvākasya indriyaṃ vai vīryaṃ ṣoḍaśī indriyeṇaiva tadvīryeṇa samṛdhyante ṣoḍaśamu evādo'cchāvākasya taddvātriṃśat dvātriṃśadakṣarānuṣṭup yo'nuṣṭubhi kāmassa na upāpto'saditi > This brahmasāman is indeed the wish of the sacrificer. > They provide the sacrificer with desires in his own domain. > The Hotṛ's pṛṣṭha is seventeen-fold; > Prajāpati is seventeen-fold; > they go across Prajāpati himself in the middle. > The maitrāvaruṇa's is twenty-one-fold; > twelve months, five seasons, these three worlds, and that yonder sun is the twenty-first; > they go across him in the middle. > The brāhmaṇācchaṃsin's is thrice-nine-fold; > thrice-nine are these worlds; > they go across these worlds in the middle. > The acchāvāka's is sixteen-fold; > the sixteen-fold is faculty and vital power; > they flourish precisely through faculty and vital power. > And that sixteen-fold is over there for the acchāvāka; > that makes thirty-two; > the anuṣṭubh has thirty-two syllables, > \[thinking:\] "Whatever desire is in the anuṣṭubh, may that be attained by us!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2-7.223.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.223.p9) - [Next: 2-7.225](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.225) - [Up: 2-7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-7.224) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.224](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.224) · Pramāṇa