[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) › 2.260 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2.260 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2.260 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.260](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.260) śrotrameva taddadhāti śrotre dve pariśravaṇe dve tasmātsamānatra sansarvā anudiśaśśṛṇoti api parāṅyanpaścādvadataśśṛṇoti tāmadhīyangāyet yadanadhīyangāyedbadhirā garbhā jāyeran badhirā ha vai durudgāturvartanyāṃ garbhā jāyante anuṣṭubhaṃ gāyati vāgvā anuṣṭup tāmarvācīmabhinudangāyati vāco'napakrāmāya yatparācīmapanudangāyedvācaṃ pradhamedvāgasmādapakrāmukā syāt tāṃ yadarvācīmabhinudangāyatyātmanneva tadvācaṃ pratiṣṭhāpayati tasyai niruktaṃ cāniruktaṃ ca pade gāyati niruktena vai vāco bhuñjate'niruktamasyā upajīvanīyam bhuṅkte vācopa cainaṃ jīvati ya evaṃ veda sa yanniruktameva gāyedvadeyureva prajā na tūṣṇīmāsīran atha yadaniruktaṃ gāyettūṣṇīmeva prajā āsīranna vadeyuḥ yasmānniruktaṃ cāniruktaṃ ca pade gāyati tasmātprajā vadanti ca tūṣṇīṃ cāsate > Thereby he places the ear: two ears and two surrounding cavities. Therefore, being in the same place, one hears in all directions. Even when facing away, one hears someone speaking from behind. He should sing it meditating. If he were to sing without meditating, deaf embryos would be born. Deaf indeed are the embryos born in the course of a bad Udgātṛ. He sings the Anuṣṭubh. The Anuṣṭubh is speech. He sings it driving it towards himself, so that speech will not depart. If he were to sing it driving it away, he would blow speech away; speech would depart from him. When he sings it driving it towards himself, he establishes speech in his very self. He sings two quarters of it, one explicitly stated and one unexpressed. By the explicitly stated part of speech they make use of it; its unexpressed part is that by which one subsists. One who knows thus makes use of speech and subsists by it. If he were to sing only the explicitly stated, creatures would only speak and would not sit silent. And if he were to sing the unexpressed, creatures would only sit silent and would not speak. Because he sings both an explicitly stated and an unexpressed quarter, therefore creatures both speak and sit silent. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.260.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.260.p1) tāṃ balavadupabdimatīṃ nighātaṃ gāyet > He should sing it strongly, with a stomping sound, striking down. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.260.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.260.p2) nighnadiva ha khalu vā etacchando yadanuṣṭup > For indeed, the meter that is Anuṣṭubh is like a smiter. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.260.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.260.p3) anuṣṭubhā vai vācā chandasā devā asurānavāco'vāghnan > By means of speech, the Anuṣṭubh meter, the gods struck down the Asuras into silence. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.260.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.260.p4) tāṃ yadbalavadupabdimatīṃ nighātaṃ gāyati - bhrātṛvyo vai pāpmā - > When he sings it strongly, with a stomping sound, striking down—the rival is evil— > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.260.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.260.p5) bhrātṛvyametatpāpmānamavācamavahanti śriyamātmanāśnute > he strikes down into silence this evil rival, and attains prosperity for himself. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.260.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.260.p6) tāmadhīyangāyet > He should sing it meditating. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.260.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.260.p7) yadanadhīyangāyedajihvā garbhā jāyeran > If he were to sing without meditating, tongueless embryos would be born. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.260.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.260.p8) ajihvā ha vai durudgāturvartanyāṃ garbhā jāyante > Tongueless indeed are the embryos born in the course of a bad Udgātṛ. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2.260) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [A Vedic Concordance](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.bloomfield-1906.c6.800) — Maurice Bloomfield, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.260](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.260) · Pramāṇa