[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) › 2-7.261 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-7.261 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-7.261 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-7.261](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.261) vauṣaḍityetamadṛśmeti so'vedadṛśanvā iti yatpañcāsanpāṅkto yajñaḥ tenāvedadṛśanvā iti teṣāmu yatpañcānāṃ satāṃ saptadaśākṣarāṇyāsansaptadaśaḥ prajāpatiḥ prājāpatyo yajñaḥ teno evāvedadṛśanvāveti so'bravītte kena hoṣyāmaḥ kasminhoṣyāma iti te'bruvaṃstavaiva vapāmutkhidya tāṃ tavaiva hṛdaye'gnau sarvahutāṃ hoṣyāma iti te prajāpatereva vapāmudakhidan vācameva teṣāṃ prāṇa evāśrāvayadapānaḥ pratyāśrāvayat mana eva hotāsīt prajāpatireva caturtho brahmā dakṣiṇata āsta tāṃ prajāpatereva hṛdaye'gnau sarvahutāṃ ajuhavuḥ tāṃ yadavapaṃstadvapāyai vapātvam yadvo enāṃ tadajuhavustadenāmavapan tasmādu ha vaptavyameva uptāddhyevedaṃ sarvaṃ jāyate tasyai hutāyā ajaḥ - > 'Vauṣaṭ!'—this is what we saw." He knew: "They have indeed seen it!" Because they were five, the sacrifice is fivefold. By that he knew: "They have indeed seen it!" And because of those being five, there were seventeen syllables; Prajāpati is seventeenfold, the sacrifice belongs to Prajāpati. By that too he knew: "They have indeed seen it!" He said: "With what will you make offering? In what will you make offering?" They said: "Having extracted your own omentum, we will offer it as a complete oblation into the fire in your own heart." They extracted Prajāpati's own omentum. Of them, breath called for recitation, and downward breath responded. Mind was the Hotṛ. Prajāpati himself, as the fourth, sat as the Brahman on the south. They offered it as a complete oblation into the fire in Prajāpati's own heart. That they scattered it, that is the omentum-nature of the omentum. That they offered it then, that was their scattering of it. Therefore, indeed, sowing must be done. For from what is sown, all this is born. From that \[omentum\] offered, a goat— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-7.261.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.261.p1) - śveto lomaśastūparo lapsugyanyatodaṃścatuṣpādajāyata > —white, shaggy, hornless, with dewlaps, having teeth on one side, four-footed, was born. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-7.261.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.261.p2) tasminsarvāṇi rūpāṇi paryapaśyan > In it they saw all forms. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-7.261.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.261.p3) te'bruvannimāni vā asminsarvāṇi rūpāṇi > They said: "All these forms, indeed, are in it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-7.261.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.261.p4) etemamevālabhāmahā iti > Come, let us seize this very one!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-7.261.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.261.p5) te tamālabhanta > They seized it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-7.261) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.261](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-7.261) · Pramāṇa