[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) › 2-8.376 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.376 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-8.376 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-8.376](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.376) śriyāmevaitatpratitiṣṭhanti jyaiṣṭhyaṃ vai pṛṣṭhāni jyaiṣṭhya evaitatpratitiṣṭhanti tejo vai pṛṣṭhāni tejasyevaitatpratitiṣṭhanti paśavo ha khalu vā abhiplavaṣṣaḍaha ātmā pṛṣṭhyaḥ yadabhiplavaṃ ṣaḍahamupetyātha pṛṣṭhyamupayanti puruṣamevaitatpaśuṣvadhyūhanti tasmātpuruṣa upariṣṭātpaśūnadhīva tiṣṭhati mūlaṃ ha khalu vā abhiplavaṣṣaḍaho'graṃ pṛṣṭhyaḥ yadabhiplavaṃ ṣaḍahamupetyātha pṛṣṭhyamupayanti tasmādoṣadhayo mūlato jāyante'grataḥ pacyante pañcaite ṣaḍahā bhavanti pāṅkto yajñaḥ yāvatī yajñasya mātrā tasyāmevaitatpratitiṣṭhanti sa māsassaṃpadyate saṃvatsaro vai māsaḥ māsaśa eva tatsaṃvatsaramāpnuvanti tasya triṃśadrātrayo bhavanti triṃśadakṣarā virāḍannaṃ virāḍvirājyeva tadannādye pratitiṣṭhanto yanti > They are established upon prosperity. > The pṛṣṭhas are supremacy. > They are established upon supremacy. > The pṛṣṭhas are splendor; they are established upon splendor. > Cattle, indeed, are the Abhiplava six-day period; the self is the Pṛṣṭhya. > When they undertake the Abhiplava six-day period and then undertake the Pṛṣṭhya, they place man over cattle. > Therefore man stands, as it were, above cattle. > The root, indeed, is the Abhiplava six-day period; the top is the Pṛṣṭhya. > When they undertake the Abhiplava six-day period and then undertake the Pṛṣṭhya, therefore plants sprout from the root and ripen at the top. > These are five six-day periods. > The sacrifice is fivefold. > They are established in the full measure of the sacrifice. > It amounts to a month. > The month is the year. > Month by month, they attain the year. > It has thirty nights; the Virāj has thirty syllables; the Virāj is food; being established in food, in the Virāj, they go on. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.376.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.376.p1) prāyaṇīyamaharbhavati > The introductory day takes place. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.376.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.376.p2) prāyaṇīyena vā ahnā devā svargaṃ lokaṃ prāyan > By means of the introductory day, indeed, the gods went forth to the heavenly world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.376.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.376.p3) yatprāyaṃstatprāyaṇīyasya prāyaṇīyatvam > Because they went forth (prāyan), that is the introductory nature (prāyaṇīyatva) of the introductory day (prāyaṇīya). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.376.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.376.p4) tadyatprāyaṇīyamaharbhavati svargasyaiva lokasya samaṣṭyai > So, that there is an introductory day is precisely for the attainment of the heavenly world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.376.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.376.p5) tasmādu haitasyāhna ṛtvijā bubhūṣitavyaṃ svargasya hyetallokasya nediṣṭham > Therefore one should desire to be an officiating priest on this day, for this is nearest to the heavenly world. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.376.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.376.p6) taccaturviṃśaṃ bhavati > It is a twenty-four-\[verse day\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.376.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.376.p7) caturviṃśatyardhamāso vai saṃvatsaraḥ > The year, indeed, consists of twenty-four half-months. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-8.376) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.376](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.376) · Pramāṇa