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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 37.218

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 37.218

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [37.218](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218)

prajāpatirvā akāmayatāchidraḥ prajayā paśubhirabhavat  
tadevāchidrasthāchidratvam  
achidra eva prajayā paśubhirbhavati ya evaṃ veda  
devā vā āptāṃ vācamachidreṇaivaibhyo lokebhyassamadalumpan  
āpteva vā etarhi vāgbhavati chandomeṣu  
tāmachidreṇaiva saṃlumpanti  
yo vai chidraṇa saṃcinoti na tadutpūryate  
atha yo'chidreṇa saṃcinoti tadutpūryate  
jyāyo'bhyārambhaṃ bhavaty | ati navamamaharjihīte | daśamamaharabhyārabhate  
prati saptamamapadhāvati  
prajāpatiḥ paśūnasṛjata  
te'smātsṛṣṭā apākrāman  
so'kāmayata na matpaśavo'pakrāmeyur | abhi mā varteranniti  
sa etatsāmāpaśyat  
tenainānparyāsyat  
tāñśraiṣṭhyenopāgṛhṇāt  
te'sminnaramanta  
ramante'sminpaśavaḥ paśumānbhavati ya evaṃ veda

> Prajāpati indeed desired: 'May I become unbroken in offspring and cattle!' That is the nature of the Achidra. He becomes unbroken in offspring and cattle who knows thus. The gods indeed smoothed together the full speech from these worlds with the Achidra. Speech becomes full, as it were, at this point in the chandomas. They smooth it together with the Achidra. What one piles up with a flaw is not filled up; but what one piles up without a flaw is filled up. It becomes a greater overlapping: it steps over the ninth day, overlaps the tenth day, \[and\] runs back to the seventh. Prajāpati created cattle. Having been created, they departed from him. He desired: 'May cattle not depart from me; may they turn toward me!' He saw this sāman. With it he encompassed them. He seized them through preeminence. They took delight in him. Cattle take delight in him, he becomes rich in cattle, who knows thus.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p1)

atha bārhaduktham

> Now the Bārhaduktha.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p2)

bṛhaduktha āṅgirasaḥ paśukāmastapo'tapyata

> Bṛhaduktha Āṅgirasa, desiring cattle, performed asceticism.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p3)

sa etatsāmāpaśyat

> He saw this sāman.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p4)

tenāstuta

> He praised with it.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p5)

sa etāmiḷāmupait

> He came to this iḷā.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p6)

paśavo vā iḷā

> Cattle, indeed, are the iḷā.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p7)

tato vai sa paśūnavārunddha

> Thence indeed he obtained cattle.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p8)

tadetatpaśavyaṃ sāma

> This is a sāman that brings cattle.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p9)

ava paśūnrunddhe bahupaśurbhavati ya evaṃ veda

> He obtains cattle, he becomes rich in cattle, who knows thus.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p10)

yadu bṛhaduktha āṅgirasī'paśyattasmādbārhadukthamityākhyāyate

> And because Bṛhaduktha Āṅgirasa saw it, it is called Bārhaduktha.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p11)

dhartā divaḥ pavate kṛtviyo rasa

> 'The upholder of heaven purifies himself, the active sap,'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p12)

ityahno dhṛtyai

> \[he says\] for the upholding of the day.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p13)

dakṣo devānāmanumādyā nṛbhir

> 'the skill of the gods, to be praised by men,'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p14)

iti chandāṃsyevaitaddakṣayantyahno vīryavattvāya

> \[he says;\] thus they make the meters skillful for the vigor of the day.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p15)

tāsūdvattripraroham

> Upon them \[is sung\] the Udvat having three shoot-offs.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p16)

tṛtīyo hyeṣa prarohaḥ kriyate | yadeṣa tṛtīyastriyaha | svargasya lokasya

> For this third shoot-off is made when this third three-day period \[is performed\], for the attainment of the heavenly world.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p17)

samaṣṭyai

> \[…\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p18)

tadvevācakṣate viśālamiti

> They also call it the Viśāla.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p19)

devā vai svargakāmāstapo'tapyanta

> The gods indeed, desiring the heavenly world, performed asceticism.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p20)

ta etatsāmāpaśyan

> They saw this sāman.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p21)

tenāstuvata

> They praised with it.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p22)

tadenānviśālameva bhūtvā svargaṃ lokamavahat

> It, having become the Viśāla itself, conveyed them to the heavenly world.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p23)

te'bruvansvargaṃ lokaṃ gatvā viśālaṃ vāva no bhūtvedaṃ sāma svargaṃ

> Having gone to the heavenly world, they said: 'This sāman, having become extensive indeed, has conveyed us to the heavenly world.'  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [37.218.p24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.37.218.p24)

lokamavākṣīditi

> \[…\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

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