[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) › 2.247 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2.247 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2.247 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.247](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.247) tā etā nava bahiṣpavamānyaḥ tāṣṣaḍbṛhatyaḥ ṣaḍu mṛtyormukhānyṛtava eva atha ha vā etāni mṛtyormukhāni bṛhatyeva prativibhavitumarhati nānyacchandaḥ sa bṛhatyaivartormukhamapidadhāti bṛhatyartorbṛhatyartoḥ sa yathā samena viṣamamatītya pratyavekṣetaivamevaitaṃ mṛtyuṃ parāṅatītya pratyavekṣate tameva taṃ trivṛtaṃ vajramupapravartayati sa eṣo'haraharimām̐llokānanuvartate taddha smāha nagarī jānaśruteyo na haiva tāvaddevāsuraṃ bhavitā yāvadeṣa trivṛdvajro'haraharimām̐llokānanuvartata ūrdhvā hyayamagnirdīpyate tiryaṅṅayaṃ vāyuḥ pavate'rvāṅasāvādityastapati ta ete'nimeṣamanyonyamīkṣante kathameteṣvevaṃ satsu devāsuraṃ syāditi eṣa u evāsya trivṛdvajro'haraharimām̐llokānanuvartamānaḥ sarvaṃ pāpmānamapaghnanpalyayate ya evaṃ veda > These are the nine bahiṣpavamāna \[verses\]. > They are six bṛhatīs. > Six are the mouths of death, namely the seasons. > Now, only the bṛhatī can match these mouths of death, no other meter. > With the bṛhatī he covers the mouth of the season, with the bṛhatī of the season, with the bṛhatī of the season. > Just as one, having crossed over uneven ground by even ground, looks back, even so, having crossed beyond this death, he looks back. > He rolls forward that very three-fold thunderbolt. > It rolls after these worlds day by day. > Regarding this, Nagarī Jānaśruteya used to say: 'Indeed, there will not be a clash between gods and asuras as long as this > three-fold thunderbolt rolls after these worlds day by day. > For this fire blazes upward, this wind blows across, yonder sun shines downward. > These look at one another without blinking. > While they are thus, how could there be a clash between gods and asuras?' > And this threefold thunderbolt of his, rolling after these worlds day by day, goes about striking off all evil, for him who knows thus. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.247.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.247.p1) tadāhuḥ sa vādya yajeta sa vānyaṃ yājayedyaścatuḥṣṭomena yājayansarvastomena > Regarding this they say: 'He indeed should sacrifice today, or he should officiate for another, who, officiating with the fourfold stoma, officiates with all the stomas.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.247.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.247.p2) yājayati > He officiates. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.247.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.247.p3) navaitā bahiṣpavamānyo bhavanti > These bahiṣpavamāna \[verses\] are nine. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.247.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.247.p4) tāsāṃ saptaviṃśatiḥ padāni > Of them there are twenty-seven feet. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2.247) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.247](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.247) · Pramāṇa