[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) › 2-8.378 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.378 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-8.378 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-8.378](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.378) tadāhurīrma iva vā eṣā hotrāṇāṃ yadacchāvāko yadacchāvākamanusaṃtiṣṭheterma iva tuṣṭuvānā syuriti tasya traikakubhaṃ brahmasāma bhavatyudveśīyamacchāvākasāma indriyaṃ vai vīryaṃ traikakubhaṃ sarvaṃ pṛṣṭharūpamudveśīyam indriye caiva tadvīrye sarvasmiṃśca pṛṣṭharūpe'ntataḥ pratitiṣṭhanti tadvā enattatprāśaṃsat tadāhuragniṣṭoma eva kārya iti tasya dvādaśa stotrāṇi bhavanti dvādaśa māsāssaṃvatsaraḥ etadu ha vai saṃvatsarasya jyaiṣṭhyaṃ parva yanmāsaḥ tadyatsaṃvatsarasya jyaiṣṭhyaṃ parva tena nassaṃvatsara ārabdho'saditi īśvarā ha tvapaśavo bhavitoḥ paśavo vā ukthāni tebhyo hi yanti tasya trīṇi stotrāṇyaṣṭācatvāriṃśāni kuryurubhau pavamānau brahmasāma tāvatīrukthyasya stotryāḥ āpnuvanti taṃ kāmaṃ ya ukthye no vā agniṣṭomādyanti varṣma vā agniṣṭomo varṣma hotā varṣmaṇaiva tadvarṣma saṃdadhati varṣmaṇā varṣmanpratitiṣṭhanti śrīrvā agniṣṭomo jyaiṣṭhyaṃ hotā jyaiṣṭhyenaiva tajjyaiṣṭhyaṃ saṃdadhati jyaiṣṭhyena jyaiṣṭhye pratitiṣṭhanti > As to that, they say: 'A stump, as it were, of the hotṛ-offices is the acchāvāka. If they conclude following the acchāvāka, they would be chanting as if upon a stump.' / Its Brahman's sāman is the Traikakubha, \[and\] the Acchāvāka's sāman is the Udveśīya. / The Traikakubha is vital power and faculty; the Udveśīya is the complete form of the pṛṣṭhas. / In vital power and faculty, and in the complete form of the pṛṣṭhas, they establish themselves at the end. / That indeed praised it. / As to that, they say: 'Only an Agniṣṭoma should be performed.' / Of it there are twelve stotras; / twelve months are the year; / and this is the highest joint of the year, namely the month. / 'So that our year may be begun by that which is the highest joint of the year.' / However, they are liable to become without cattle; cattle, indeed, are the ukthas, for they depart from them. / They should make three stotras forty-eight-\[versed\]: both the pavamānas and the Brahman's sāman; / so many are the stoma-verses of the Ukthya. / They attain that wish which is in the Ukthya, and they do not depart from the Agniṣṭoma. / The Agniṣṭoma is the summit; the hotṛ is the summit; by the summit they thus join the summit; by the summit they establish themselves on the summit. / The Agniṣṭoma is fortune; the hotṛ is supremacy; by supremacy they thus join supremacy; by supremacy they establish themselves in supremacy. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.378.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.378.p1) tadāhuḥ plavamiva vā etacchando yajjagatī na prāyaṇāya > As to that, they say: 'This meter, namely the Jagatī, is like a raft, not for going forth.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.378.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.378.p2) tatsthānaṃ ṣaḍeva ṣaṭtriṃśāni stotrāṇi kuryuṣṣaṭcaturviṃśānīti > 'In place of that, they should make only six thirty-six-\[verse\] stotras and six twenty-four-\[verse ones\].' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.378.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.378.p3) ṣaṭtriṃśadakṣarā vai bṛhatī > The Bṛhatī, indeed, has thirty-six syllables. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.378.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.378.p4) bṛhatī svargo lokaḥ sāmrājyaṃ > The Bṛhatī is the heavenly world, universal sovereignty. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.378.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.378.p5) bṛhatyāmeva tatsvarge loke sāmrājye pratitiṣṭhanto yanti > In the Bṛhatī, indeed, in the heavenly world, in universal sovereignty, they go establishing themselves. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.378.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.378.p6) bṛhatyu ha vā imānsarvām̐llokānakṣarairvyāpnoti daśabhirevākṣarairimaṃ lokaṃ > And the Bṛhatī, indeed, pervades all these worlds with its syllables. With ten syllables it pervades this world, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.378.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.378.p7) vyāpnoti daśabhirantarikṣaṃ daśabhiramuṃ caturbhirdiśo dvābhyāmahorātre > with ten the intermediate space, with ten yonder \[world\], with four the quarters, with two day and night. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.378.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.378.p8) sā yemāṃllokānvyāpnoti tayemāṃllokānvyāpnavāmeti > 'Since it pervades these worlds, let us pervade these worlds through it.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.378.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.378.p9) tasmātṣaḍeva ṣaṭtriṃśāni stotrāṇi kuryuṣṣaṭcaturviṃśānīti > Therefore they should make only six thirty-six-\[verse\] stotras and six twenty-four-\[verse ones\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.378.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.378.p10) atho caturviṃśatyardhamāso vai saṃvatsaraḥ > And also, the year consists of twenty-four half-months. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.378.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.378.p11) ardhamāsaśa eva tatsaṃvatsaramāpnuvanti > Half-month by half-month they thus attain the year. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-8.378) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.378](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.378) · Pramāṇa