[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) › 2-8.414 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.414 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2-8.414 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2-8.414](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.414) tadāhurupariṣṭādeva saṃvatsarasyopetyam dūrūpaṃ vai tato vrataṃ vijñāyate yatropajāyata iti tatpañcaviṃśaṃ bhavati caturviṃśatyardhamāso vai saṃvatsaro'nnādyaṃ pañcaviṃśatyannādyamevaitatpañcaviṃśyopadhīyate pañcaviṃśo ha khalu vai puruṣaḥ puruṣasyaitatstotramityāhurdaśa vai puruṣasya hastyā aṅgulayo daśa padyāścatvāri prāṅgāṇyātmā pañcaviṃśaṣṣaḍimāni parvāṇi ṣaḍimāni ṣaḍimāni ṣaḍimānyātmā pañcaviṃśo dvādaśemāḥ pariśavo dvādaśemā ātmaiva pañcaviṃśaḥ puruṣaṃ vāvaitena saṃskurvanti puruṣaṃ prajanayanti tadāhussarvamevaitadahaḥ pañcaviṃśamupetyamiti pañcaviṃśameva śira upeyuḥ pañcaviṃśamanyaṃ pakṣaṃ pañcaviṃśamanyaṃ pañcaviṃśaṃ pucche pañcaviṃśamātmānamevaṃ vratasyopāptiraṅgenāṅgena vratamupāpnavāmeti tasmādatha ha smāharjjiśvā vātavāta ekaṃ vāvaitatstotraṃ sattatpañcadhā vihṛtya stuyuḥ pañcabhireva śira stuyuḥ pañcabhiranyaṃ pakṣaṃ pañcabhiranyaṃ pañcabhiḥ pucche pañcabhirātmānam tathaikameva pañcaviṃśaṃ nātiricyate evaṃ vratasyopāptiriti > On this they say: "It should be undertaken only at the end of the year." / Badly formed indeed is the vrata known from where it arises. / It is twenty-five-fold. / The year consists of twenty-four half-months; food is the twenty-fifth; it is food as the twenty-fifth that is placed on it. / Twenty-five-fold indeed is man. / "This is the stotra of man," they say. Ten indeed are the fingers of man on the hands, ten on the feet, four are the main limbs, the self is the twenty-fifth. Six are these joints, six these, six these, six these, the self is the twenty-fifth. Twelve are these ribs, twelve these, the self itself is the twenty-fifth. / It is man that they prepare with this; man that they generate. / On this they say: "This whole day should be undertaken as twenty-five-fold. / They should undertake the head as twenty-five-fold, the other wing as twenty-five-fold, the other as twenty-five-fold, the tail as twenty-five-fold, the self as twenty-five-fold. Thus is the attainment of the vrata: 'Limb by limb let us attain the vrata.'" / Concerning this, Ṛjiśvan Vātavāta used to say: "Being just one stotra, dividing it into five parts, they should praise. With five \[verses\] they should praise the head, with five the other wing, with five the other, with five the tail, with five the self. / Thus it is just one twenty-five-fold \[stotra\] and does not exceed. / Thus is the attainment of the vrata." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.414.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.414.p1) atha ha smāhāruṇirna vā anyānyaṅgānyātmanā samāni > Now, Āruṇi used to say: "The other limbs are not equal to the self." > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.414.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.414.p2) no'nyairaṅgairātmā samaḥ > 'The trunk is not equal to the other limbs.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2-8.414.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.414.p3) viṣameṇa vai puruṣaḥ kalpate viṣameṇa samaḥ > 'A person is arranged through the uneven; the even \[is formed\] through the uneven.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2-8.414) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.414](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2-8.414) · Pramāṇa