[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) › 2.275 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2.275 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2.275 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.275](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.275) daivīṃ ha vā eṣa saṃsadameti yaḥ pavamānairudgāyati sa yathā śreyāṃsamabhyāyannevaṃ śikṣannivopaśikṣannivopanamasyanniva saṃsiddhaiḥ śaknuvan anupahanyamāna udgāyet yathāyantamāmīvedyathā yadyācettaddadyāttādṛktat atha ya etairasaṃsiddhairaśaknuvannupahanyamāna udgāyedyathāyantaṃ pratimīvedyathā yadyācettanna dadyāttādṛgu tat tadu hātraiva yajñasya samṛddhaṃ ca vyṛddhaṃ ca vijñāyate atihāryā ha vā eṣā yatpavamānāḥ yo vā atihāryāmasaṃvīto'tigāhate mṛdā vai sa lipyata āyati vā atha yaḥ saṃvīto'tigāhate na mṛdā lipyate nāyatī evamiva vai pavamānā upacāryāḥ tadāhuryadanyāni stotrāṇi stotriyapratipado'tha kasmātpavamānā astotriyapratipada iti sa brūyātprāṇā vai pavamānāḥ prāṇā u pāvamānyaḥ tadyatpavamānānpāvamānībhirevānupratipadyeranparāñca eva prāṇānnirmṛjyuriti tānyadanuṣṭubhānupratipadyante vāgvā anuṣṭubvācyapāno niyato vācaiva tadapānaṃ dādhāra > He indeed enters a divine assembly who sings the Udgītha with the Pavamānas. > Just as if approaching a superior, thus learning, as it were, imitating, as it were, bowing down, as it were, he should sing the Udgītha with perfected \[chants\], being capable and unimpeded. > Like welcoming one who approaches, like giving whatever one might ask—such is that. > Now, he who sings the Udgītha with these unperfected \[chants\], incapable and impeded, like turning away one who approaches, like not giving whatever one might ask—such is that. > And regarding this, right here the success and failure of the sacrifice are known. > A ford indeed is this, namely, the Pavamānas. > He who wades through a ford uncovered is smeared with mud or injured. > Now he who wades through covered is not smeared with mud, nor is he injured. > In this way indeed the Pavamānas are to be approached. > Regarding this they say, “Since the other stotras have stotriya-introductory verses, why then do the Pavamānas have no stotriya-introductory verses?” > He should say, “The Pavamānas are the vital breaths, and the Pāvamānī \[verses\] are the vital breaths. > So, if they were to begin the Pavamānas with Pāvamānī \[verses\], they would wipe away the vital breaths outward.” > Since they begin them with an Anuṣṭubh—speech indeed is the Anuṣṭubh, the downward breath is restrained in speech—by speech alone he thereby supports the downward breath. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.275.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.275.p1) tadāhuraśāntamiva vā etatstotraṃ yatstotriyeṇa nānupratipadyante > Regarding this they say: “This stotra is unpacified, as it were, since they do not begin it with a stotriya \[verse\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.275.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.275.p2) kenaiṣāṃ stotriyapratipado'nitaṃ bhavatīti > By what is it, among them, provided with a stotriya-introductory verse?” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.275.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.275.p3) sa brūyādvāgvā anuṣṭubvācyu vai sarvāṇi chandāṃsi > He should say: “Speech indeed is the Anuṣṭubh; and in speech are all the meters. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.275.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.275.p4) yadāgneyamaindraṃ pavamānaṃ tenaiṣāṃ stotriyapratipado'nitaṃ bhavati > Because the Pavamāna belongs to Agni and Indra, thereby it is, among them, provided with a stotriya-introductory verse.” > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2.275) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.275](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.275) · Pramāṇa