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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 58.320

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 58.320

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [58.320](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.58.320)

viṣuvatkaṃ vā etatsatraṃ yaddvādaśāhaḥ  
sa ya etasya satrasya viṣuvantaṃ veda śrīrvai viṣuvānviśuvāñśreṣṭha svānāṃ bhavati  
puruṣo ha vā etasya satrasya viṣuvān  
puruṣo hyeṣāṃ lokānāṃ viṣuvān  
ime vai lokā eṣa dvādaśāho'hamasya satrasya viṣuvānasmītyeva manyamāna  
etena dvādaśāhena yajeta  
tasya haitasminneva satre viṣuvānupeto bhavati  
sa vā eṣo'hanneva pratiṣṭhitaḥ  
prāyaṇīyamahardvitīyamahastṛtīyamaharityaharahariti bhaati  
asau vā ādityo'haḥ  
etamevaitenardhnuvantyetasya salokatāṃ gacchanta

> This sacrificial session which is the twelve-day rite has indeed a Viṣuvant \[central day\].  
> He who knows the Viṣuvant of this sacrificial session—the Viṣuvant is prosperity—becomes prosperous and the best among his own people.  
> A person indeed is the Viṣuvant of this sacrificial session.  
> For a person is the Viṣuvant of these worlds.  
> These worlds are this twelve-day rite. Thinking, 'I am the Viṣuvant of this sacrificial session,' he should sacrifice with this twelve-day rite.  
> His Viṣuvant becomes reached in this very sacrificial session.  
> It is firmly established in the day itself.  
> Day after day it becomes: 'the introductory day, the second day, the third day.'  
> Yonder Āditya is the day.  
> Through this they prosper him, and go to union in the world with him.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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