[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) › 58.360 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 58.360 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 58.360 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [58.360](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.58.360) nāsadāsīnno sadāsīttadānīṃ nāsīdrajo no vyomā paro yat kimāvarīvaḥ kuha kasya śarmannambhaḥ kimāsīdgahanaṃ gabhīramiti tasminnasati sati na kasmiṃścana satyṛtaṃ jyotiṣmadudaplavata | satyaṃ jyotiṣmadudaplavata | tapo jyotiṣmadudaplavata tadyadṛtamiti vāksā | yatsatyamiti prāṇasso | yattapa iti manastat teṣāmannameva jyotirāsīt tānyekamabhavan tadekaṃ bhūtvaitenānnena jyotiṣāpyāyata tadabhavadyathā madhvaṣṭhī lāvāsvāsiktā syādṛtirnaivam tadaikṣata hantādhastātprāṇaṃ karavā iti tadadhastātprāṇamakuruta | yathaiṣa striyā adhastādākāśa evam tasmādāpo'sṛjyanta balavalabalityetayā vācā tadidamāpo mahatsalilamāsīt yaddha vā idamāhurāpo vā idamagre mahatsalilamāsīdityetāstā āpaḥ ta ūrmayassa māsyanta phā3lphāślitiṣ taddhiraṇmayamāṇḍe samaiṣat > 'There was neither the non-existent nor the existent then; there was no realm of air, nor the sky beyond. > What enveloped? Where? In whose shelter? Was there water, deep and fathomless?' > In that non-existent \[which was yet\] existent, while nothing at all existed, light-bearing order floated up; light-bearing truth floated up; light-bearing ascetic heat floated up. > Now, what is order, that is speech; what is truth, that is breath; what is ascetic heat, that is mind. > Food was their very light. > They became one. > Having become one, it swelled with this food, with light. > It became just as a lump of honey or a well-filled waterskin might be; not so \[otherwise\]. > It thought: 'Come, let me make breath below.' > It made breath below, just as is this opening below of a woman. > From that, waters were emitted with the speech: 'bala, valaba'. > This became waters, a great flood. > When they say this: 'Waters indeed were this great flood in the beginning,' these are those waters. > Those waves were churning together: 'phāl, phāṣ'. > It developed together into a golden egg. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [58.360.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.58.360.p1) tasya haritamadharaṃ kapālamāsīdrajatamuttaram > Its lower shell was golden; the upper was silver. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [58.360.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.58.360.p2) tacchataṃ devasaṃvatsarāñchayitvā nirbhidyamabhavatsahasraṃ vā dyumnān > Having lain for a hundred divine years, or a thousand dyumnas, it broke open. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [58.360.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.58.360.p3) dyumnā ha nāma tarhyapyāsuḥ > For dyumnas they were then called. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [58.360.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.58.360.p4) yāvāneṣa saṃvatsaras | tāvantassaṃvatsarasya pratimāḥ > As great as is this year, so many are the counter-measures of the year. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.58.360) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.58.360](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.58.360) · Pramāṇa