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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-7.226

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-7.226

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2-7.226](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.226)

indriyeṇaiva tadvīryeṇa samṛdhyante  
ṣoḍaśo mādhyaṃdinaḥ  
taddvātriṃśat  
dvātriṃśadakṣarānuṣṭup  
yo'nuṣṭubhi kāmassa na upāpto'saditi  
trīṇi saptadaśāni pṛṣṭhāni bhavanti  
prajāpatirvai saptadaśaḥ  
prajāpatinaiva tatsamṛdhyante  
ṣoḍaśamacchāvākasya  
indriyaṃ vai vīryaṃ ṣoḍaśī  
indriyeṇaiva tadvīryeṇa samṛdhyante  
ṣoḍaśa ārbhavaḥ  
taddvātriṃśad  
dvātriṃśadakṣarānuṣṭup  
yo'nuṣṭubhi kāmassa na upāpto'saditi  
ekaviṃśamagniṣṭomasāma  
dvādaśa māsāḥ pañcartavastraya ime lokā asāvāditya ekaviṃśaḥ  
etasya vā ete salokatāṃ gacchanti etamabhyārohanti

> They flourish precisely through faculty and vital power.  
> The midday \[pavamāna\] is sixteen-fold;  
> that makes thirty-two;  
> the anuṣṭubh has thirty-two syllables,  
> \[thinking:\] "Whatever desire is in the anuṣṭubh, may that be attained by us!"  
> There are three seventeen-fold pṛṣṭhas;  
> Prajāpati is seventeen-fold;  
> they flourish through Prajāpati himself.  
> The acchāvāka's is sixteen-fold;  
> the sixteen-fold is faculty and vital power;  
> they flourish precisely through faculty and vital power.  
> The ārbhava is sixteen-fold;  
> that makes thirty-two;  
> the anuṣṭubh has thirty-two syllables,  
> \[thinking:\] "Whatever desire is in the anuṣṭubh, may that be attained by us!"  
> The agniṣṭomasāman is twenty-one-fold;  
> twelve months, five seasons, these three worlds, and that yonder sun is the twenty-first;  
> they go to the same world as him; they ascend unto him.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-7.226.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.226.p1)

athaiṣa kaniṣṭhānāmagrakāmāṇām

> Now this is for the youngest who desire supremacy.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-7.226.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.226.p2)

tasya trivṛtassataścaturviṃśaṃ bahiṣpavamānam

> Its bahiṣpavamāna is twenty-four-fold, being \[normally\] nine-fold (trivṛt).  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-7.226.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.226.p3)

te ye kaniṣṭhā agrakāmā syusta etena yajeran

> Those who are youngest and desire supremacy should sacrifice with it.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-7.226.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.226.p4)

tadyattrivṛtassataścaturviṃśaṃ bahiṣpavamānaṃ bhavati caturviṃśatyardhamāsassaṃvatsaraḥ

> In that the bahiṣpavamāna is twenty-four-fold, being \[normally\] nine-fold—the year consists of twenty-four half-months;  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-7.226.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.226.p5)

saṃvatsaro vā agraṃ jyaiṣṭhyaṃ sa yo'graṃ jyaiṣṭhyaṃ sa no'graṃ jyaiṣṭhyaṃ gamayāditi

> the year is supremacy and seniority, \[thinking:\] "May he who is supremacy and seniority lead us to supremacy and seniority!"  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-7.226) — English, machine translation

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