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Then Ūrj Jānāyana asked Kapivana Bhauvāyana: 'Since the morning pressing is Gāyatrī, the midday pressing Triṣṭubh, and the third pressing Jagatī, what then is this unexhausted Anuṣṭubh that flies toward the beginnings of the pressings and carries the sacrifice to its end?' He said: 'Speech indeed is the Anuṣṭubh; through speech the sacrifice is extended. Just as, yonder, they run repeatedly with a fine bull harnessed with a rope, either for an uphill slope or to carry a heavy load, so indeed they harness this speech, the Anuṣṭubh, for the course at the beginnings of the pressings. For the beginnings of the pressings are, as it were, uphill slopes. This speech itself, unexhausted, carries the sacrifice to its end. He who knows the Anuṣṭubh as reaching into everything, to him there is a share in merit everywhere. The Gāyatrī has eight syllables, the Triṣṭubh eleven syllables, the Jagatī twelve syllables; "vāc" is the finale of the Yajñāyajñīya. That makes thirty-two; thirty-two syllables has the Anuṣṭubh. Indeed, there is a share of this \[Anuṣṭubh\] in the morning pressing, in the midday pressing, and in the third pressing; there is a share of this \[Anuṣṭubh\] in the priesthood, in the nobility, and in the common folk; there is a share of this \[Anuṣṭubh\] in this world, in the intermediate space, and in that world. He who thus knows this Anuṣṭubh as reaching into everything, to him there is indeed a share in merit everywhere.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p1) atha hāhīnasamāśvatthiṃ keśī dārbhyaḥ keśinaḥ sātyakāminaḥ purodhāyā > Then Keśin Dārbhya excluded Ahīnas Āśvatthi from the domestic priesthood > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p2) aparurodha > of Keśin Sātyakāmi. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p3) sa ha sthavirataro'hīnā āsa kumārataraḥ keśī > Ahīnas was older; Keśin was younger. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p4) taṃ hovācāṃ keśinkiṃ me vidvānrājanyamupāhṛthā iti > He said to him: 'Keśin, knowing what of mine did you take away the nobleman?' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p5) sa hovāca dahedanuṣṭubhameva sarvāṇi chandāṃṣyupāsmahe bṛhatīṃ paśūnyajñaṃ svargaṃ > He said: 'Burn! We worship the Anuṣṭubh alone as all the meters, as the Bṛhatī, as cattle, as the sacrifice, as the heavenly > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p6) lokamiti > world.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p7) taṃ hāsraṃ viveda > A tear came to him \[Ahīnas\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p8) sa ha kṛpayāṃ cakre > He grieved. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p9) taṃ hovāca mā kṛpayathāḥ > \[Keśin\] said to him: 'Do not grieve. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p10) yadi rājanyakāmyā kṛpayasa eṣa te rājanyaḥ > If you grieve out of desire for a nobleman, here is your nobleman. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p11) api vai vayamanyaṃ rājanyameṣiṣyāmahā iti > We shall seek another nobleman.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p12) sa hovāca naitatkeśinrājanyakāmyā brahmacaryameva vai mā > He said: 'It is not this, O Keśin, out of desire for a noble; rather, it was through \[my\] studenthood that I—' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p13) tadanusamsmṛtyāsramavidat > Recalling that, he wept. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p14) cacāra vai brahmacaryam > Indeed he lived as a student. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p15) upajarasaṃ vāvedamaśṛṇma yadayamiyatkumārako'bhivedayata iti > 'We have heard this only until old age, which this young boy makes known,' \[they thought\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p16) evamevaitadanusamsmṛtyāsramavidaditi > Just so, recalling this, he wept. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.284.p17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284.p17) sa yadanuṣṭubhaṃ sarvāṇi chandāṃsyuvācāṣṭākṣarā gāyatryekādaśākṣarā > As for his stating that the anuṣṭubh is all the meters: the gāyatrī has eight syllables, the triṣṭubh eleven syllables, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.2.284) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.2.284) · Pramāṇa