[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) › 25.151 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 25.151 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 25.151 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [25.151](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.25.151) atha vājajit annaṃ vai vājaḥ yadā vai gauraśvaḥ puruṣo'nnasya suhito bhavati | atha sa vājī bhavati devāsurā annādye aspardhanta te devā akāmayanta vṛñjīmahyannādyamasurāṇāmiti ta etatsāmāpaśyan tenāstuvata te vājijigīvetyevānnādyamasurāṇāmavṛñjata tadeva vājajito vājajittvam tadetadannādyasyāvaruddhissāma avānnādyaṃ runddhe | vṛṃkte dviṣato bhrātṛvyasyānnādyaṃ ya evaṃ veda tatpañcākṣaraṇidhanaṃ bhavati pāṃkto vai yajñaḥ atīva vā ete yajñasya mātrāṃ krāmanti ya etadaharāgacchanti tadyatpañcākṣaraṇidhanaṃ bhavati pāṃkto yajño yāvatī yajñasya mātra tāṃ nedatikrāmāmeti > Now the Vājajit. > Food indeed is booty (vāja). > When an ox, a horse, or a man is well-satisfied with food, then he becomes strong (vājī). > The gods and the asuras contended for food. > The gods desired: 'May we exclude the asuras from food.' > They saw this sāman. > They praised with it. > Saying 'Winner of booty, having conquered!', they excluded the asuras from food. > That is the booty-winning nature of the Vājajit. > This sāman is the securing of food. > He secures food, he cuts off the food of his hateful rival, who knows this. > It has a five-syllable finale. > The sacrifice is fivefold. > Those who come to this day go exceedingly beyond the measure of the sacrifice. > When it has a five-syllable finale, \[it is because\] the sacrifice is fivefold, \[thinking\]: 'Lest we exceed the full measure of the sacrifice.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.151.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.25.151.p1) atha varuṇasāma > Now the Varuṇasāman. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.151.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.25.151.p2) varuṇo vai rājā sadhamādamivānyābhirdevatābhirāsīt > King Varuṇa was on an equal revelry, as it were, with the other deities. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [25.151.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.25.151.p3) so'kāmayata sarveṣāṃ devānāṃ rājyāya sūyeyeti > He desired: 'May I be consecrated to the kingship of all the gods.' > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.25.151) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.25.151](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.25.151) · Pramāṇa