[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) › 31.185 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 31.185 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 31.185 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [31.185](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.185) atha gauṅgavaṃ yatsāma devatā praśaṃsati sāmaitaddevatā praśaṃsati tena yajamānāssatyāśiṣo bhavanti devāsurāḥ paśuṣvaspardhanta te'surāḥ paśubhissaha samudramabhyavāyan te devā akāmayanta vṛñjīmahyasurāṇāṃ paśūniti ta etatsāmāpaśyan tenāstuvata tenāsurāṇāṃ paśūnavṛñjata te'bruvangāṃ gāṃ vāvāsurāṇāmavṛkṣmahīti tadeva gauṅgavasya gauṅgavatvam tadetatpaśavyaṃ sāma gāṃ-gāmeva dviṣato bhrātṛvyasya vṛṃkte'va paśūnrunddhe bahupaśurbhavati ya evaṃ veda gauṅgavena vai devā asurānhatvā ghoṣaṃ gaṃgaṇimakurvata tadveva gauṅgavasya gauṅgavatvam tadu bhrātṛvyahā hanti dviṣantaṃ bhrātṛvyaṃ ya evaṃ veda tadūrdhvamiva ca tiryagiva ca gīyate yadūrdhvamiva gīyate tadbṛhato rūpaṃ | yattiryagiva tadrathantarasya etadvai samṛddhaṃ chandomānāṃ yadubhayaṃ rūpam > Now, the Gauṅgava: the sāman praises the deity. > This sāman praises the deity; thereby the sacrificers come to have their wishes realized. > The gods and the Asuras vied for cattle. > The Asuras went down to the ocean together with the cattle. > The gods desired: "May we wrest away the cattle of the Asuras!" > They saw this sāman. > With it they praised. > With it they wrested away the cattle of the Asuras. > They said: "We have wrested away cow after cow (gāṃ gām) of the Asuras!" > That is the Gauṅgava-ness of the Gauṅgava. > This is a sāman conferring cattle. > He wrests away cow after cow of his hateful rival, secures cattle, and becomes rich in cattle, who knows thus. > Having slain the Asuras with the Gauṅgava, the gods made a clamor (ghoṣa), 'gaṃ-gaṇam'. > That, too, is the Gauṅgava-ness of the Gauṅgava. > And it is a slayer of rivals. > He slays his hateful rival, who knows thus. > It is sung as if upward and as if crosswise. > That which is sung as if upward is the form of the Bṛhat; that which is as if crosswise is that of the Rathantara. > This indeed is the fullness of the Chandomas: that it has both forms. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.185.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.185.p1) atha samantam > Now, the Samanta. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.185.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.185.p2) indrāgnī vā akāmayetāṃ samantau syāva | samānīmṛddhimṛdhnuyāveti > Indra and Agni desired: "May we be contiguous (samanta); may we attain equal prosperity!" > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.185.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.185.p3) tāvetatsāmāpaśyatām > They saw this sāman. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.185.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.185.p4) ardhamanyo'paśyada ardhamanyaḥ > One saw one half, the other the other half. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.185.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.185.p5) tasyāntau samāhṛtya samadhattām > Bringing its two ends together, they joined them (samadhattām). > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.185.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.185.p6) yatsamadhattāṃ tatsamantasya samantatvam > Because they joined them, that is the Samanta-ness of the Samanta. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.185.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.185.p7) tenāstuvātām > With it they praised. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.185.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.185.p8) tato vai tau samantāvabhavatāṃ | samānīmṛddhimārdhnutām > Then indeed they both became contiguous; they attained equal prosperity. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [31.185.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.185.p9) tadbrahma vā agniḥ | kṣatramindraḥ > That brahman is Agni; nobility is Indra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.31.185) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.185](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.31.185) · Pramāṇa