[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) › 2-7.234 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-7.234 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-7.234 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-7.234](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.234) saṃvatsarasaddha khalu vā eṣa yaścāturmāsyayājī tasya śunāsīryaṃ me mahāvrataṃ bhājanam sa yāvatsaṃvatsareṇa mahāvratavatāvarunddhe tāvadavarunddhe ya evaṃ veda tasya saurī pratipadbhavati sauryupālaṃbhyā asau vā ādityaḥ sūrya eṣa indraḥ ṣandraṃ mahāvrataṃ tattatsalakṣma kriyate ṛtuṣu ha khalu vā eṣa saṃvatsaraṃ svargaṃ lokamapyeti yaścāturmāsyayājī sa vasantameva prathamenāhnāpyeti grīṣmaṃ dvitīyena varṣāstṛtīyena śaradaṃ caturthena hemantaṃ pañcamena śiśiraṃ ṣaṣṭhena saṃvatsarameva śunāsīryeṇāpyeti sa sarvastomo bhavati sarvaṃ hi tadyatsarvastomaḥ sarvamevaitenāpyeti tasya tryeṇī śalalī bhavati lauhāyasaḥ kṣuraḥ sa caturṣu caturṣu māssu keśānparivartayate'nantatāyā asau vā ādityo'nantaḥ ananto vā asau bhūtvedaṃ sarvamabhyaśnute'nanto bhūtvedaṃ sarvamabhyaśnavā iti ananto bhūtvedaṃ sarvamabhyaśnavā iti > He who performs the four-month seasonal sacrifices has indeed attained the year. > His Śunāsīrya rite is a vessel like the Mahāvrata. > As much as one obtains by the year endowed with the Mahāvrata, so much does he obtain who knows thus. > Its opening verse belongs to Sūrya; the animal victim belongs to Sūrya. > Yonder sun is indeed Āditya; > Sūrya is Indra. > The Mahāvrata belongs to Indra; thus it is made to have the same characteristic. > Into the seasons, indeed, he enters—into the year, the heavenly world—he who performs the four-month seasonal sacrifices. > He enters spring by the first day, summer by the second, the rains by the third, autumn by the fourth, > winter by the fifth, and the cool season by the sixth. > He enters the year itself by the Śunāsīrya rite. > It is an all-stoma \[rite\]. > For all is that which is an all-stoma \[rite\]. > He enters everything by this. > His porcupine quill has three white marks; his razor is of iron. > Every four months he shaves his hair for endlessness. Yonder Āditya is endless. > Having become endless, yonder \[sun\] pervades all this. \[Thinking:\] 'Having become endless, I shall pervade all this; > having become endless, I shall pervade all this.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-7.234.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.234.p1) ityekāhaṃ samāptam > Thus ends the one-day rite. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-7.234.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.234.p2) ahīnam > \[The section on\] the Ahīna \[rites\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-7.234.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.234.p3) athaite dvirātrāḥ > Now these two-day rites. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-7.234.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.234.p4) haviṣmāṃśca vai haviṣkṛccāṅgirasāvāstām > Haviṣmant and Haviṣkṛt were two Āṅgirases. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-7.234.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.234.p5) tāvasmim̐lloke strīcaryaṃ pramattau carantāvṛṣayo'ṅgirasaḥ pitaraśca pitāmahāśca > While the two of them were wandering heedlessly in this world indulging in women, the Āṅgiras seers, their fathers and grandfathers, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-7.234.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.234.p6) sukṛto hitvā svargaṃ lokamāyan > departed to the heavenly world having done good deeds, leaving \[the two\] behind. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-7.234.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.234.p7) tau yadā sā caryā paraidathākāmayetāṃ kathaṃ nvidyatra nāvṛṣayo'ṅgirasaḥ pitaraśca > When that indulgence passed away from the two, they then desired: 'How indeed may the two of us follow to where our Āṅgiras seers, fathers, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-7.234) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.234](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.234) · Pramāṇa