[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) › 2.279 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2.279 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 2.279 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.279](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.279) eta evāpi sarve devā yatstotrāṇi tadyanmitāni stotrāṇi bhavanti tasmānmitā devāḥ aṣṭau vasava ekādaśa rudrā dvādaśādityāḥ atha yasmādamitāni śastrāṇi tasmādvamitāḥ prajāḥ na tānvidma yāvanto brāhmaṇā yāvanto rājanyā yāvanto vaiśyā yāvantaḥ śūdrā iti etadvai mitaṃ cāmitaṃ ca mitaṃ hāsyāmitaṃ ca bahu bhavati ya evaṃ veda ye arvāñcastaṃ u parāca āhurye parāñcastaṃ u arvāca āhuḥ | indraśca yā cakrathuḥ soma tāni dhurā na yuktā rajaso vahanti iti pavamānā vai parāñcaḥ teṣāṃ camasā arvāñcaḥ te ha te prāṇā eva tasmātprāṇyāpānituṃ śaknoti abhyāvartā arvāñcaḥ teṣāṃ parāñcaścamasāḥ te ha te'pānā eva tasmādvapānya prānituṃ śaknoti > These very stotras are all the gods. > Because the stotras are measured, therefore the gods are measured: > eight Vasus, eleven Rudras, twelve Ādityas. > Now, because the recitations are unmeasured, therefore creatures are unmeasured. > We do not know how many Brahmins there are, how many nobles, how many Vaiśyas, how many Śūdras. > This indeed is the measured and the unmeasured. > Both his measured and unmeasured become abundant, who knows thus. > "Those which are turned backward, they call turned forward; and those which are turned forward, they call turned backward. Those which you two, Indra and Soma, have made, yoked like poles, carry across the space." > The pavamānas are turned forward. > Their cups are turned backward. > They are indeed the in-breaths. > Therefore, having inhaled, one is able to exhale. > The recurring \[chants\] are turned backward. > Their cups are turned forward. > They are indeed the out-breaths. > Therefore, having exhaled, one is able to inhale. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.279.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.279.p1) yo vai savanānāṃ jyaiṣṭhyaṃ veda gacchati jyaiṣṭhyaṃ na jyaiṣṭhyādavarohati > He who knows the seniority of the soma pressings reaches seniority, does not fall from seniority. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.279.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.279.p2) gāyatrī vai prātaḥsavanasya jyaiṣṭhyam > The Gāyatrī is indeed the seniority of the morning pressing. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.279.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.279.p3) tadyattatrānyadanyacchandaḥ kriyate'tha tadgāyatramityākhyāyate > Because whatever other meter is performed there, it is designated as Gāyatra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2.279) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Metrically restored text (van Nooten & Holland)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg*vnh.1.164.19) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.279](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.279) · Pramāṇa