[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) › 2-8.404 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.404 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-8.404 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-8.404](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.404) saptāśītirmahāvratasya stotryā bhavanti trayodaśa parimādaḥ tacchatam śatāyurvai puruṣaśśatendriyaśśatavīryastasyaivendriyasya vīryasyāvaruddhyai athaitā vācaḥ pravadanti kṣudrāḥ parimādaḥ karkarī cālābuśca vakrā ca kapiśīrṣṇī caiṣīkī cāpāghāṭalīkā ca vīṇā ca kaśyapī ca bhūmidundubhiścārṣabheṇa carmaṇābhivihato vāṇaśca śatatantrīḥ antarikṣe dundubhayo vitatā vadanti adhikumbhāḥ paryāyanti etā vācaḥ pravadanti sarvasyai vāco'varuddhyai kṛtsnāyai vācaḥ kṛtsnāṃ vācamavaruṇadhāmahā iti tadyadbhūmidundubhirārṣabheṇa carmaṇābhivihato vadati paramā vā ṛṣabho vākparamasyā eva vāco'varuddhyai antarikṣe dundubhayo vitatā vadanti yaivāntarikṣe vāktāmeva tenāvarundhate adhikumbhāḥ paryāyantyetadvai pratyakṣaṃ divo rūpaṃ yanmūrdhā yaivāmuṣyāṃ vāktāmeva tenāvarundhate vāṇaṃ śatatantrīmāghnanti śatāyurvai puruṣaśśatendriyaśśatavīryastasyaivendriyasya vīryasyāvaruddhyai > Eighty-seven are the verses to be chanted of the Mahāvrata, thirteen are the parimāds. / That is a hundred. / Man has a life of a hundred years, a hundred faculties, a hundred vital powers; \[it is\] for the attainment of that very faculty and vital power. / Then they utter these voices: / the minor parimāds, the karkarī-lute, the gourd-lute, the bent lute, the monkey-headed lute, the reed-pipe, the apāghātalīkā, the vīṇā, the tortoise-lute, the earth-drum struck with a bull's hide, and the hundred-stringed vāṇa-harp. / Drums stretched in the mid-air sound. / Women with water-jars on their heads walk around. / They utter these voices for the attainment of all voice, of the whole voice, thinking: 'May we obtain the whole voice.' / When the earth-drum struck with a bull's hide sounds, the bull is the highest voice; \[it is\] for the attainment of the highest voice. / Drums stretched in the mid-air sound; whatever voice is in the mid-air, that very voice they attain thereby. / Women with water-jars on their heads walk around; this is the visible form of the sky, namely, the head; whatever voice is in yonder \[sky\], that very voice they attain thereby. / They strike the hundred-stringed vāṇa-harp; man has a life of a hundred years, a hundred faculties, a hundred vital powers; \[it is\] for the attainment of that very faculty and vital power. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.404.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.404.p1) māgadhaṃ ca puṃścalūṃ ca dakṣiṇe vedyante mithunīkārayanti mithunatvāya prajananāya > They cause a Māgadha and a harlot to copulate on the southern edge of the altar for pairing, for procreation. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.404.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.404.p2) pra mithunena jāyate ya evaṃ veda > He who knows this is procreated through a pair. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.404.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.404.p3) āryaṃ ca varṇaṃ śaudraṃ coparyupari cātvālaṃ bastājine vyāyamayantyārṣabhe vā > They make an Ārya and a Śūdra struggle over a goatskin or over a bull's hide, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.404.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.404.p4) carmaṇi > above the cātvāla trench. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.404.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.404.p5) tayorantarvedyāryo varṇo bhavati bahirvedi śaudraḥ > Of the two, the Ārya is inside the altar, the Śūdra outside the altar. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.404.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.404.p6) tayorāryeṇa varṇena śaudraṃ varṇaṃ jyāpayanti > Of the two, they cause the Ārya to conquer the Śūdra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.404.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.404.p7) devāśca vā asurāścāmuṣminnāditye'spardhanta > The gods and the asuras contended over yonder sun. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.404.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.404.p8) taṃ devā asurāṇāmavṛñjata > The gods wrested it from the asuras. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-8.404) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.404](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.404) · Pramāṇa