[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) › 2-8.396 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.396 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-8.396 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-8.396](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.396) tenaivotsṛṣṭaṃ ca na ceti atho yāvantyevāhānyutsṛjeraṃstāni saṃkhyāyopariṣṭādatirātrasyopeyuḥ teno evotsṛṣṭaṃ ca na ceti atha ha smāha bhāllabeya ukthānyevotsṛjyānīti prajā vai paśava ukthāni prajā eva tatpaśūnutsṛjante atho yathā dṛtimpadocchvāsayettādṛktat tadāhurutsṛjyameveti prajāpatireṣa yatsaṃvatsaraḥ tasyaite prāṇāḥ parvāṇi yatpaurṇamāsyaścāmāvāsyāśca yathā ha vā idaṃ dṛtirabhidhmātaśśocedevaṃ ha vā eṣa prajāpatiḥ paśūñchocayatyanutsṛjyamānaḥ tadyatpaurṇamāsīścāmāvāsyāścotsṛjante'ṅgānyevāsya tatprāṇānparvāṇi prasārayanti nennassaṃvatsaraśśuśucāno hinasaditi tamīṃ hinvantyagruva iti śvo bhūte pratipadaṃ kurvīran tadyathā dṛtimucchvāsitaṃ punarabhidhamettādṛktat dhamanti bākuraṃ dṛtiṃ tridhātu sāraghaṃ madhviti saṃvatsaro vai bākuro dṛtiryajñastridhāturbrāhmaṇāssaraghāsta evaitanmadhu kurvanti > 'thereby it is both omitted and not omitted. > Moreover, having reckoned as many days as they might omit, they should perform them after the Atirātra; > thereby too it is both omitted and not omitted.' > Then Bhāllabeya used to say: 'Only the ukthas are to be omitted. > Offspring and cattle, indeed, are the ukthas; > thus they omit offspring and cattle. > Moreover, that is just as if one were to deflate a bellows by foot.' > Regarding this they say: 'It is indeed to be omitted. > Prajāpati, indeed, is this year. > His breaths and joints are these full-moon and new-moon days. > Just as a blown-up bellows would burn, just so does this Prajāpati > cause cattle to burn if not omitted. > When they omit the full-moon and new-moon days, they thereby extend his limbs, breaths, and joints, \[thinking:\] "Lest the year, burning, harm us." > On the morrow they should make as opening verse: "They urge him forward, the slender ones..." > That is just as if one were to blow up again a deflated bellows. > "They blow the bākura bellows, the threefold honey of the bees"; the year, indeed, is the bākura bellows; the sacrifice is threefold; the Brahmins are the bees; they make this honey.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2-8.395.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.395.p2) - [Next: 2-8.397](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.397) - [Up: 2-8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-8.396) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.396](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.396) · Pramāṇa