[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) › 2-8.340 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.340 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-8.340 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-8.340](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340) athaite jyotirgaurāyuriti stomā bhavanti ete ha vai śivāśśāntāḥ pathyā stomā ye jyotirgaurāyuriti te ye śivāśśāntāḥ pathyā stomāstairna stutamasaditi ta u virājaṃ saṃpannāḥ tadu virājamannādyamārabhante yo vai śreyāṃsamasaṃvidyopādhirohatyudvai sa taṃ hiṃste | yayā vai sa tamārtyā kāmayate tayainaṃ ninayati atha ya enamanu saṃvidamanusamāsādyopādhirohati na vai sa tamuddhiṃste tadyadete jyotirgaurāyuriti stomā bhavanti yathā śreyāṃsamanu saṃvidamanusamāsādyopādhirohettādṛktat athaiṣa trivṛdagniṣṭudagniṣṭomo bhavati brahma vai trivṛt kṣatraṃ pṛṣṭhyaṣṣaḍahaḥ tadyatpurastātpṛṣṭhyasya ṣaḍahasyāgniṣṭutamupayanti brahmaiva tatkṣatrasya purastāddadhāti tasmādbrāhmaṇaḥ kṣatriyasya purohitaḥ ekeno ca satreṇa dve satre upayanti dvādaśāhaṃ ca pañcadaśarātraṃ ca vaiśvānara udayanīyo'tirātro bhavati vaiśvānarodayanā hyahīnāssomāḥ > Now, these stomas are Jyotis, Gauḥ, and Āyus. / These, indeed, are the propitious, peaceful, right-path stomas: namely Jyotis, Gauḥ, and Āyus. / Thinking, 'Those stomas which are propitious, peaceful, and of the right path, by them let it not be un-praised,' \[they perform them\]. / And they amount to the Virāj. / Thereby they take hold of the Virāj as food. / If someone mounts upon a superior without an agreement, he certainly injures him; by whatever misfortune he desires, into that he leads him. / But he who mounts upon him following an agreement, having approached him by agreement, he does not injure him. / In that these stomas are Jyotis, Gauḥ, and Āyus, it is just as if one were to mount upon a superior following an agreement, having approached him by agreement. / Now, this Agniṣṭoma is the threefold Agniṣṭut. / The threefold \[stoma\], indeed, is the priesthood. / The pṛṣṭha six-day rite is the nobility. / In that they undertake the Agniṣṭut before the pṛṣṭha six-day rite, he places the priesthood in front of the nobility; / therefore a Brahmin is the domestic priest of a Kṣatriya. / And by one sacrificial session they undertake two sacrificial sessions: the twelve-day rite and the fifteen-night rite. / The concluding Atirātra is sacred to Vaiśvānara; for non-soma-sacrificial periods have their conclusion in Vaiśvānara. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p1) dvimāsyaṃ vā etatsatram > This sacrificial session indeed belongs to two months. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p2) tena yarddhissaivarddhiḥ > The prosperity through that is precisely this prosperity. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p3) yau ha khalu vai dvau māsāvṛtossarddhiḥ > What two months indeed are, that is the prosperity of a season. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p4) ṛturu pratyakṣaṃ saṃvatsarasyarddhiḥ > And a season is visibly the prosperity of the year. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p5) saṃvatsaraṃ vā etadīrtsanti saṃvatsaramīpsanti yadyajante yatsatramāsate > It is the year that they wish to obtain, the year they desire to attain, when they sacrifice, when they sit for a sacrificial session. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p6) na hi kiṃ cana bahissaṃvatsarādasti > For there is nothing whatsoever outside the year. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p7) svārājyaṃ vā etā rātrayo yadekaviṃśatirdaśa parastādahāni daśāvastāt > Autonomous rule, indeed, are these nights which are twenty-one: ten days on that side, ten on this side. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p8) atha yanmadhye'hassa svarāṭsa svargo lokaḥ > Now, the day which is in the middle, that is the autonomous ruler, that is the heavenly world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p9) tadbradhnasya viṣṭapaṃ gacchanti tatsvārājyaṃ gacchanti > Thus they go to the zenith of the sun, thus they go to autonomous rule. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p10) tadanyasyānanuyānā bhavanti > Thus they become not following behind another. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p11) tā vā etā rātrayassaṃpadyante virājameva > Now, these nights amount precisely to the Virāj. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p12) tadu virājo'nnādyasyaiśvaryamādhipatyaṃ gacchanti > Thereby they attain lordship and sovereign rule over the food of the Virāj. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p13) pañca ca virāṭca > And there are five, and there is the Virāj. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p14) tā yāḥ pañca daivīrācchadastāsāmeṣarddhiḥ > Those five divine envelopes that exist—this is their prosperity. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p15) yaḥ pāṅkto yajño ye pāṅktāḥ paśavo yatpāṅktamannādyaṃ ye pañcartavo yatkiṃ ca pañca pañca > Whatever sacrifice is fivefold, whatever cattle are fivefold, whatever food is fivefold, the five seasons that exist, and whatever is in groups of five— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p16) tasyaiṣā sarvasyarddhistasyopāptiḥ > of all that, this is the prosperity, of that the attainment. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.340.p17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340.p17) daśaitāni parastādahāni bhavanti daśāvastādviṣuvānekaviṃśaḥ > Ten are these days on that side, ten on this side, the central day (viṣuvat) is the twenty-first. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-8.340) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.340) · Pramāṇa