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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 51.274

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 51.274

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [51.274](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.51.274)

taṃ devebhyaḥ prāyacchat  
sa kṣayādvibhyatprādravat  
te devā akāmayanta śṛṇuyānna iti  
ta etatsāmāpaśyan  
tenainaṃ środhiyetyanvahvayan  
so'śṛṇot  
tamabruvannabhi na āvartasveti  
kṣayādvai bibhamīti  
netyabruvan  
tasmai vai me śraddhāṃ kuruteti  
tasmai środhiyetyeva śraddhāmakurvan  
tamehyā ityeva nyahvayanta  
tato vai tebhyo yajño nodakrāmat  
tata evānupāvartata  
uktrānta ivaitarhi yajño bhavati navame'han  
tadyadatra śrudhīyaṃ bhavati | samevainametena yajñaṃ nihvayante  
tasmācchrodhiyetyeva prathamāyāṃ kuryācchrodhemetyuttarayoḥ  
atho yasmai jīvātuṃ kāmayeta | tametanaiva nihvayeta

> He gave it to the gods. / Fearing exhaustion, it ran away. / The gods desired: "May it listen to us!" / They saw this sāman. / With it they called after it: "Hearken! (środhiya)". / It listened. / They said to it: "Turn back to us!" / "I fear exhaustion," \[it said\]. / "Do not \[fear\]," they said. / "Then place your trust (śraddhā) in me," \[it said\]. / By saying "Hearken!" (środhiya), they placed trust in it. / They summoned it down, saying: "Come here!" (ehyā). / Then the sacrifice did not escape from them; / from there it turned back. / The sacrifice is as if escaped now on the ninth day. / That there is the Śrudhīya here, thereby they summon down the sacrifice together. / Therefore one should chant "środhiya" in the first \[verse\], and "środhema" in the two following \[verses\]. / Moreover, for whomever one might desire long life (jīvātu), him one should summon down with this very \[sāman\].  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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