[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) › 2.24 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2.24 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2.24 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.24) tena triṇavaṃ stomaṃ nāntaryanti navaivaitā bahiṣpavamānyo bhavanti caturviṃśatyakṣarā gāyatrī tattrayastriṃśat tena trayastriṃśaṃ stomaṃ nāntaryanti etadvai catuḥṣṭomena yājayati yo vai stomānāmavamaṃ paramaṃ veda gacchati paramatām trivṛdvāva stomānāmavamastrivṛtparamaḥ tadu hovāca barkurvārṣṇastrivṛtaṃ stomaṃ trayastriṃśaṃ bhavantamapaśyaṃ tasmādahaṃ paramatāmagacchamiti gacchati paramatāṃ ya evaṃ veda atha ha smāhāruṇiḥ kiṃ so'bhicaretkiṃ vābhicāryamāṇa ādriyeta ya etaṃ trivṛtaṃ vajraṃ tribhṛṣṭimacchidramacchambaṭkāriṇamaharaharimām̐llokānanuvartamānaṃ veda svayamabhicarito vāva sa yamevaṃviddveṣṭi yo vaivaṃvidaṃ dveṣṭīti eṣa u evainaṃ trivṛdvajrastribhṛṣṭiracchidro'cchambaṭkāryaharaharimām̐llokānanuvartamāno'bhivartate tasya na bhūtyā alpikeva canāśāsti parāparaiva bhavatīti > Thereby they do not omit the twenty-seven-fold stoma. > These bahiṣpavamāna \[verses\] are nine. > The gāyatrī has twenty-four syllables. > That is thirty-three. > Thereby they do not omit the thirty-three-fold stoma. > In this way indeed he officiates with the fourfold stoma. > He who knows the lowest and the highest of the stomas reaches the highest state. > The threefold stoma is the lowest of the stomas, the threefold is the highest. > Regarding this Barku Vārṣṇa said: 'I saw the threefold stoma becoming thirty-three-fold; therefore I reached the highest state.' > He reaches the highest state who knows thus. > Now Āruṇi used to say: 'Why should he practice sorcery, or why, being subjected to sorcery, should he care, who knows this threefold thunderbolt, three-pointed, unbroken, unassailable, rolling after these worlds day by day? > He by himself is struck by sorcery whom the one who knows thus hates, or who hates the one who knows thus.' > And this threefold thunderbolt, three-pointed, unbroken, unassailable, rolling after these worlds day by day, turns against him. > There is not even a slight hope for his prosperity; he only falls lower and lower. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.24.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.24.p1) tadu ha smāhopajīvaḥ khāḷāyano'hamevaitaṃ trivṛtaṃ vajraṃ pratyakṣaṃ veda tasmādyamahaṃ > Regarding this Upajīva Khāḷāyana used to say: 'I know this threefold thunderbolt directly; therefore whomever I > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.24.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.24.p2) dveṣmi yo māṃ dveṣṭi tāvubhau śvaḥ śva eva pāpīyāṃsau bhavata iti > hate, and whoever hates me, both of them become worse and worse day by day.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.24.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.24.p3) agnirvā asya lokasya vajro vāyurantarikṣasyādityo divaḥ > Fire is the thunderbolt of this world, wind of the intermediate space, the sun of heaven. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.24.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.24.p4) tadidamadhyātmam > Now this regarding the self: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.24.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.24.p5) yo'gnirvāgeva sā yo vāyuḥ prāṇa eva sa ya ādityaścakṣureva tat > What fire is, that is speech; what wind is, that is breath; what the sun is, that is the eye. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.24.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.24.p6) tasmādyadahaṃ dviṣantamabhivadāmi yadabhiprāṇimi yadabhivīkṣe vajramevāhaṃ tasmai taṃ > Therefore, when I speak toward an enemy, when I breathe toward him, when I look toward him, it is the thunderbolt that I > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.24.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.24.p7) praharāmi > hurl at him. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2.24) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.24) · Pramāṇa