[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) › 2-8.408 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.408 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-8.408 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-8.408](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.408) tasmādidaṃ pucche pratihitam parācībhirapunarabhyāvartam tasmādidaṃ pucche saṃ cāñcati pra ca sārayati tisrassatīrekaviṃśatiṃ karoti tasmādidaṃ pucche medyato'numedyati kṛśyato'nukṛśyati udgātā pañcaviṃśenātmanā rājanenodgāyati imaṃ tadātmānaṃ pratidadhāti tasmādayamāmā pratihitaḥ parācībhirapunarabhyāvartam tasmādidamātmānaṃ saṃ cāñcati pra ca sārayati tisrassatīḥ pañcaviṃśatiṃ karoti tasmādayamātmā medyato'numedyati kṛśyato'nukṛśyati ta ekaikayāstutayodgātāramupasamāyanti tābhirudgātodgāyati ātmanneva tadaṅgāni pratidadhāti tasmādātmannaṅgāni pratihitāni ātmanyayottamayodgāyati tasmādidamātmana udiva śete > Therefore this tail is firmly fixed. \[He sings\] with straightforward \[verses\], without returning back. Therefore one contracts and extends this tail. Being three, he makes them twenty-one. Therefore this tail swells when one grows fat and shrinks when one grows thin. The Udgātṛ sings with the twenty-five-fold trunk, using the Rājana \[sāman\]. He thus establishes this trunk. Therefore this trunk is firmly fixed. \[He sings\] with straightforward \[verses\], without returning back. Therefore one contracts and extends this trunk. Being three, he makes them twenty-five. Therefore this trunk swells when one grows fat and shrinks when one grows thin. They approach the Udgātṛ each with one unchanted \[verse\]. With these the Udgātṛ sings. Thereby he establishes the limbs directly in the trunk. Therefore the limbs are fixed in the trunk. Then he sings with the last \[verse\] upon the trunk. Therefore this \[trunk\] rests, as it were, elevated above the body. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.408.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.408.p1) prajāpatiḥ prajāssasṛjānassa vyasraṃsata > Prajāpati, having emitted offspring, became disassembled. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.408.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.408.p2) tasmāddevatā vyudakrāman > The deities departed from him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.408.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.408.p3) tamindra eva devatānāṃ nājahāt > Indra alone among the deities did not abandon him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.408.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.408.p4) sa indramabravītkathaṃ nvahamitaḥ punaranvābhaveyamiti > He said to Indra: 'How now might I come to be whole again from this state?' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-8.408) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.408](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.408) · Pramāṇa