[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) › 2.259 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2.259 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2.259 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.259](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259) dvirha vai yajamāno jāyate mithunādanyajjāyate yajñādanyat tadyanmithunājjāyate tadasmai lokāya jāyate atha yadyajñājjāyate tadamuṣmai lokāya jāyate gandharvalokāya jāyate devalokāya jāyate svargalokāya jāyate yajño vai yajamāno yajñaḥ somo rājā tadyaddhavirdhāne grāvabhissomaṃ rājānamabhiṣuṇvanti yajamānameva tadretaḥ kurvanti prajāpatireṣa yadudgātā sa tvaṣṭā sa retasaḥ sektā sa rūpāṇāṃ vikartā tadyadbahiṣpavamāne retasyāṃ gāyati yajamānameva tadreto bhūtaṃ siñcati yadṛcamasāmnīṃ gāyedasthyeva jāyate na māṃsam yatsāmānṛcaṃ gāyenmāṃsameva jāyate nāsthi ṛcaṃ sāmnābhiliptāṃ gāyati tasmāllomnā tvacā māṃsena puruṣo'bhilipto jāyate tasyāṃ na hiṃkuryāt yaddhiṃkuryādvajreṇa hiṃkāreṇa reto vicchindyāt yo hi tadapi vālena vīyātsa evainadvicchindyāt tāmadhīyangāyet yadanadhīyangāyedaretaskā garbhā jāyeran aretaskā ha vai durudgāturvartanyāṃ garbhā jāyante > Twice indeed is the sacrificer born: once he is born from a pair, once from the sacrifice. That which is born from a pair is born for this world; then that which is born from the sacrifice is born for that world: he is born for the world of the Gandharvas, he is born for the world of the gods, he is born for the heavenly world. The sacrificer is the sacrifice; King Soma is the sacrifice. In that they press King Soma with the stones in the havirdhāna shed, they thereby make the sacrificer semen. The Udgātṛ is Prajāpati. He is Tvaṣṭṛ; he is the shedder of semen, he is the transformer of forms. When he sings the semen-bearing \[verse\] in the Bahiṣpavamāna, he thereby pours the sacrificer as semen. If he should sing a verse without a sāman, only bone would be born, not flesh. If he should sing a sāman without a verse, only flesh would be born, not bone. He sings the verse smeared with the sāman; therefore, a person is born smeared with hair, skin, and flesh. On it he should not utter the sound hiṃ. If he should utter the sound hiṃ, he would sever the semen with the vajra of the sound hiṃ. For even he who were to separate it with a hair would sever it. He should sing it meditating. If he were to sing without meditating, seedless embryos would be born. Seedless indeed are the embryos born in the course of a bad Udgātṛ. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p1) gāyatrīṃ gāyati > He sings the Gāyatrī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p2) prāṇo vai gāyatrī > The Gāyatrī is breath. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p3) tasyai dve akṣare vyatiṣajati > He intertwines two syllables of it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p4) prāṇāpānāveva tadvyatiṣajati > Thereby he intertwines the in-breath and out-breath. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p5) tasmātprāṇāpānau tadvyatiṣaktau prajā anusaṃcarata ā ca parā cāyātayāmānau > Therefore, the in-breath and out-breath, intertwined, move along creatures, unexhausted, hither and thither. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p6) tāmadhīyangāyet > He should sing it meditating. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p7) yadanadhīyangāyenmṛtā garbhā jāyeran > If he were to sing without meditating, dead embryos would be born. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p8) mṛtā ha vai durudgāturvartanyāṃ garbhā jāyante > Dead indeed are the embryos born in the course of a bad Udgātṛ. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p9) triṣṭubhaṃ gāyati > He sings the Triṣṭubh. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p10) cakṣurvai triṣṭup > The Triṣṭubh is the eye. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p11) tasyai dve akṣare dyotayati > He illuminates two syllables of it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p12) cakṣuṣī eva taddadhāti > Thereby he places the two eyes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p13) tasmādyukte iva cakṣuṣī > Therefore, the two eyes are as if paired. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p14) tāmadhīyangāyet > He should sing it meditating. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p15) yadanadhīyangāyedandhā garbhā jāyeran > If he were to sing without meditating, blind embryos would be born. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p16) andhā ha vai durudgāturvartanyāṃ garbhā jāyante > Blind indeed are the embryos born in the course of a bad Udgātṛ. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p17) jagatīṃ gāyati > He sings the Jagatī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p18) śrotraṃ vai jagatī > The Jagatī is the ear. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.259.p19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259.p19) tasyai catvāryakṣarāṇi dyotayati > He illuminates four syllables of it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2.259) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.259) · Pramāṇa