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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2.243

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2.243

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.243](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.243)

yajñāyajñīya ekam  
gāyatraṃ vai prātaḥsavanaṃ traiṣṭubhaṃ mādhyaṃdinaṃ savanaṃ jāgataṃ tṛtīyasavanam  
brahmaṇo'sya sataḥ kṣatrasyeva prakāśo bhavati vaiśyasyeva rayiḥ puṣṭirya evaṃ veda  
tasyo evākṣaraśo gāyatrīmeva prātaḥsavanaṃ saṃpadyate triṣṭubhaṃ mādhyaṃdinaṃ savanaṃ  
jagatīṃ tṛtīyasavanam  
ekānnasaptatiḥ prātaḥsavanasya stotriyāṣṣaṣṭistriṣṭubho mādhyaṃdinaṃ savanaṃ  
caturviṃśatiśca jagatīstṛtīyasavanam  
ekā va kakup  
puruṣo vai kakup  
sa ha sa yajamāna evaitasyāṃ saṃpadyadhyūḍhaḥ  
tadvatraivānuvyeti  
na kiṃ canātiricyate  
ekasyai kakubho'ṣṭāviṃśatyakṣarāyai catvāryakṣarāṇyādāya vāmadevyasya nyūne  
trīṇyupadadhāti yajñāyajñīya ekam  
atha yā gāyatrī pariśiṣyate tāmada ekānnasaptatyāṃ prātaḥsavanasya stotriyāsu  
pratyupadadhāti  
tadu hānantam  
anantāṃ śriyaṃ jayati ya evaṃ veda

> —\[and\] one into the Yajñāyajñīya. The morning pressing belongs to the Gāyatrī; the midday pressing belongs to the Triṣṭubh; the third pressing belongs to the Jagatī. Even being a Brahmin, he has brilliance like that of a kṣatriya, and wealth and nourishment like that of a vaiśya, who knows this. And in terms of its syllables, the morning pressing amounts to the Gāyatrī, the midday pressing to the Triṣṭubh, and the third pressing to the Jagatī: sixty-nine stoma verses of the morning pressing, sixty Triṣṭubhs of the midday pressing, and twenty-four Jagatīs of the third pressing. The Kakubh is one. Man is indeed a Kakubh. That sacrificer himself has attained and mounted upon this. In this way it corresponds right there. Nothing remains in excess. Having taken four syllables from the one Kakubh of twenty-eight syllables, he places three into the deficiency of the Vāmadevya \[sāman\], and one into the Yajñāyajñīya. Then the Gāyatrī that remains over, that he places over there into the sixty-nine stoma verses of the morning pressing. That indeed is endless. He wins endless prosperity who knows this.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.243.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.243.p1)

tasyo eva dve savane bṛhatīṃ saṃpadyete

> And in this same way, two pressings amount to the Bṛhatī.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.243.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.243.p2)

yathaiva purā tṛtīyasavanaṃ tathā tṛtīyasavanam

> Just as the third pressing was before, so is the third pressing.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.243.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.243.p3)

ekānnasaptatiḥ prātaḥsavanasya stotriyāḥ

> There are sixty-nine stoma verses of the morning pressing.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.243.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.243.p4)

tāṣṣaṭcatvāriṃśadbṛhatyaḥ saṃpadyante

> They amount to forty-six Bṛhatīs.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2.243) — English, machine translation

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