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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 43.251

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 43.251

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [43.251](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.43.251)

tau ha bahu pratigṛhya garagirāviva menāte  
tāvakāmayetāmapemaṃ garaṃ gīrṇaṃ hanīvahīti  
tāvete sāmanī apaśyatām  
tābhyāmastuvātām  
tayoranyataro'gnirāhuta ityevemaṃ lokamabhinirājuhot  
agniṃ ha vā asmim̐lloke na kiñcanātiricyate  
śukra āhuta ityevānyataro'muṃ lokamabhinirājuhot  
ādityamu ha vā amuṣmim̐lloke na kiñcanātiricyate  
tato vai tau taṃ garaṃ gīrṇamapāhnātām  
tata enayoryathā dvidataḥ kumārasya sātaṃ syād | evaṃ sātamāsa  
yo garagīrmanyetāpratigṛhyasya pratigṛhyānāśyānnasyānnamaśitvā | sa etābhyāṃ  
stuvīta  
apa haiva taṃ garaṃ gīrṇaṃ hate  
yadenena kiṃ ca pāpaṃ kṛtaṃ bhavati | tadapahate  
te u pañcākṣaraṇidhane bhavataḥ pañcapadā vai paṃktiḥ  
pāṃktāḥ paśavaḥ  
paśavaśchandomāḥ paśūnāmevāvaruddhyai  
yadu gauṣūktiścāśvasūktiścaiṣāvapaśyatāṃ tasmādgauṣūktāśvasūkte ityākhyāyate

> Having received many gifts, they considered themselves as having swallowed poison.  
> They desired: “May we strike away this swallowed poison.”  
> They saw these two sāmans.  
> They praised with them.  
> One of them poured out toward this world with “Agni is offered”.  
> Indeed, nothing in this world surpasses Agni.  
> The other poured out toward that world with “Śukra is offered”.  
> Indeed, nothing in that world surpasses Āditya.  
> Then indeed they struck away that swallowed poison.  
> Then for them it was pleasant, as it would be pleasant for a two-toothed child.  
> Whoever should think himself to have swallowed poison, having accepted \[a gift\] from one whose gift is not to be accepted, having eaten food from one whose food is not to be eaten, he should praise with these two \[sāmans\].  
> He strikes away that swallowed poison;  
> whatever evil he has done, he strikes that away.  
> And they have five-syllable finales. The paṅkti has five feet;  
> cattle are paṅkti-like.  
> The chandoma days are cattle, for the attainment of cattle.  
> Since Gauṣūkti and Āśvasūkti saw them, they are called Gauṣūkta and Āśvasūkta.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [43.251.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.43.251.p1)

parīto ṣiṃcatā sutam

> “Pour out the pressed \[soma\] all around” —  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [43.251.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.43.251.p2)

iti parivatīrbhavantyantasya rūpam

> these \[verses\] have ‘pari’, which is the form of the end.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [43.251.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.43.251.p3)

antyo hyetadahaḥ

> For this day is the final one.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [43.251.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.43.251.p4)

somo ya uttamaṃ havir

> “Soma, who is the highest sacrificial offering” —  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [43.251.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.43.251.p5)

ityuttamaṃ hyetaddhaviḥ kriyate yacchandomāḥ

> for that is made the highest sacrificial offering which is the chandoma days.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [43.251.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.43.251.p6)

dadhanvāṃ yo naryo apsvantarā suṣāva somamadribhiḥ

> “He who runs, helpful to men, in the waters, has pressed soma with the stones;”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [43.251.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.43.251.p7)

nūnaṃ punāno'vibhiḥ pari sravādabdhassurabhintaraḥ

> “Now, being purified through the sheep\[-wool filters\], may he flow around, unassailable, most fragrant;”  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [43.251.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.43.251.p8)

sute cittvāpsu madāmo andhasā

> “At the pressed \[soma\] in the waters we exhilarate ourselves with food” —  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [43.251.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.43.251.p9)

ityandhasvatīrbhavantyannaṃ vā andho'nnādyasyaivāvaruddhyai

> these \[verses\] have ‘andhas’; food is indeed ‘andhas’, for the attainment of food.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [43.251.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.43.251.p10)

śrīṇanto gobhiruttaram

> “Mixing with cows the higher \[soma\]” —  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [43.251.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.43.251.p11)

iti gomatīḥ paśumatīrbhavanti paśūnāmevāvaruddhyai

> these \[verses\] have cows and cattle, for the attainment of cattle.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [43.251.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.43.251.p12)

paśavo hi chandomāḥ

> For the chandoma days are cattle.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.43.251) — English, machine translation

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