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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.332

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-8.332

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2-8.332](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.332)

athaiṣa kusurvindadaśarātraḥ  
tasya trayastrivṛto'gniṣṭomāstrayaḥ pañcadaśā ukthyāstrayassaptadaśā ukthyā  
jyotiratirātro yaḥ kāmayeta tejasvī brahmavarcasyojasvī vīryāvānannādaḥ  
pratitiṣṭheyamiti sa etena yajeta  
tejo vai brahmavarcasaṃ trivṛtstoma ojo vīryaṃ pañcadaśo'nnaṃ saptadaśaḥ pratiṣṭhā  
jyotiratirātra ṛdhnoti hainenaitānkāmānya etasminkāmāḥ  
ato jyotiṣṭome'tirātre śrutastaṃ kāmamṛdhnavāni yo daśarātra iti  
etaṃ ha sma vai tatprasṛptau brāhmaṇau samūdāte kaṃ nu somya yajñakratuṃ prasṛptau sva  
iti  
tayorhānyatara uvāca yadi nvā idamevāpyaha śvo bhavitāgniṣṭomā eva tarhi  
daśo eva tvayi nūnamahānyāsiṣyāvahā iti  
taṃ haitaṃ tāvagniṣṭomameva menāte ye hyevāmī agniṣṭimasya stomāsta evaite  
athaiṣo'bhrirubhayataḥkṣṇūḥ -

> Now this is the ten-day rite of Kusurvinda. It has three trivṛt Agniṣṭomas, three fifteen-fold Ukthyas, three seventeen-fold Ukthyas, and a Jyotir Atirātra. If one should desire, ‘May I be brilliant, endowed with spiritual luster, vigorous, endowed with vital power, an eater of food, firmly established,’ he should sacrifice with this. The trivṛt stoma is brilliance and spiritual luster, the fifteen-fold is vigor and vital power, the seventeen-fold is food, and the Jyotir Atirātra is firm establishment. Through this he fulfills those desires which are in this \[rite\]. Hence, it is celebrated in the Jyotiṣṭoma Atirātra: ‘May I fulfill that desire which is the ten-day rite.’ About this, two Brahmins who had crept in \[to the sadas\] conversed together: ‘To what sacrificial rite have we two crept, my friend?’ One of the two said: ‘If tomorrow is to be just like today, then these are Agniṣṭomas; ten days indeed we shall sit by you.’ The two considered it an Agniṣṭoma alone, for the stomas of the Agniṣṭoma are indeed these. Now this \[rite is\] a spade sharp on both sides:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-8.332.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.332.p1)

- tasya trivṛdagniṣṭomaḥ purastādbhavati trivṛdagniṣṭoma upariṣṭādaṣṭāvukthyāḥ

> its trivṛt Agniṣṭoma is in front, a trivṛt Agniṣṭoma is at the end, and eight Ukthyas  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-8.332.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.332.p2)

saptadaśā madhye

> are seventeen-fold in the middle.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-8.332.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.332.p3)

annādyakāmo haitena yajeta

> One who desires food should sacrifice with this.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2-8.332.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.332.p4)

agnirvai pūrvastrivṛdāditya uttaraḥ

> Agni is the former trivṛt, Āditya the latter.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-8.332) — English, machine translation

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