[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) › 2-8.386 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.386 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-8.386 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-8.386](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.386) saptadaśā svarasāmāno bhavantyekaviṃśo viṣuvān prajāpatirvai saptadaśo'sāvāditya ekaviṃśaḥ pitraiva tatputraṃ paryūhanti pitā hi putrāya kantamaḥ putro hi pitre kantamaḥ yadatrānyaṃ stomamavadadhyuḥ prāsau taṃ tejasā dahedagnirvaiśvānaraḥ prajā ādadīta ṣaḍete svarasāmāno bhavanti ṣaḍṛtavaḥ ṛtuṣvevainaṃ tadadhyūhanti tasmādeṣastrīnṛtūndakṣiṇaiti trīnudaṅ sa yathā putraḥ pitṝnanusaṃcarettādṛgevaitadajāmitāyai ajāmi hi putraḥ pitṝnanusaṃcarati athaitau viśvajidabhijitāvabhita stomānāṃ vīryam vīryeṇa ha vā etau viṣuvantaṃ dādhartuḥ tadāhu stomakṛntatramiva vā etatstomā yanti yattrayastriṃśātsaptadaśamupayantīti purastādeva pṛṣṭhyasya ṣaḍahasyābhijitamupetya pṛṣṭhyasyaiva ṣaḍahasya yanmadhye saptadaśamahastadupariṣṭāttrayastriṃśasya paryūheyuḥ tadyatsaptadaśādeva saptadaśamupayanti samātsamaṃ na stomakṛntatraṃ stomā yanti nārtimārcchanti > The Svarasāmans are seventeen-fold; the Viṣuvant is twenty-one-fold. > Prajāpati is seventeen-fold; yonder Āditya is twenty-one-fold. > Thereby they surround the son with the father. > For the father is dearest to the son; the son is dearest to the father. > If they were to place another stoma here, yonder Agni Vaiśvānara would burn him with fiery energy, \[and\] seize the creatures. > These Svarasāmans are six. > Six are the seasons. > They place him upon the seasons; therefore he goes south for three seasons, north for three. > Just as a son would walk around his fathers, so indeed is this, for the sake of avoiding monotony. > For a son walks around his fathers without monotony. > Now these two, the Viśvajit and the Abhijit, on both sides, are the vital power of the stomas. > With vital power these two hold the Viṣuvant. > Regarding this they say: 'The stomas proceed as if to a cutting of the stomas, > when from the thirty-three-fold they go to the seventeen-fold.' > Having undertaken the Abhijit before the six-day pṛṣṭhya rite, they should transfer above the thirty-three-fold the seventeenth-day rite which is in the middle of the six-day pṛṣṭhya rite. > When from the seventeen-fold they go to the seventeen-fold, from the equal to the equal, the stomas do not go to a cutting of the stomas; > they do not suffer distress. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.386.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.386.p1) tad āhurātmā vai pṛṣṭhyaṣṣaḍaho'nnaṃ saptadaśaḥ > Regarding this they say: 'The six-day pṛṣṭhya rite is the body; the seventeen-fold is food.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.386.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.386.p2) yatpṛṣṭhyātṣaḍahātsaptadaśaṃ nirhareyurannādyaṃ bahirdhā kuryuraśanāyukā syuḥ > 'If they were to remove the seventeen-fold from the six-day pṛṣṭhya rite, they would put food outside; they would become hungry.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.386.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.386.p3) trayastriṃśādevopetyamiti > 'One should undertake it directly from the thirty-three-fold.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.386.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.386.p4) trayastriṃśadvai sarvā devatāḥ > Thirty-three are all the deities. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.386.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.386.p5) sarvā u ha vai devatāssaṃpadya prajāpatimudvā āpnuvanti na vā > All the deities having gathered, do they reach Prajāpati or do they not? > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.386.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.386.p6) tattatsamādeva samamupayanti > So they go from the equal to the equal. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.386.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.386.p7) varṣmaṇo vā varṣma > From the height \[they go\] to the height. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.386.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.386.p8) varṣma hi pitā > For the father is the height. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.386.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.386.p9) atho utkrāntireva > Moreover, it is indeed an ascending. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.386.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.386.p10) pitā hi putrācchreyān > For the father is superior to the son. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-8.386) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.386](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.386) · Pramāṇa