[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) › 8.32 # Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 8.32 Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 8.32 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [8.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.8.32) sa etatsāmāpaśyat tenāstuta tato vai so'hne evāharniramimata tadyadetatsāma bhavaty | ahna evaitenāharnirmimata etaddha sma vai tatkruṅgāṅgiraso'hne evāharvipipīte yaddha vā idamāhuḥ kruṅkṣīraṃ vipipīta iti | na ha vai tatkruṅvipipīte kruṅha sma vai tadāṅgiraso'hna evāharvipipīte kruṃṅāṅgirasa svargakāmastapo'tapyata sa etatsāmāpaśyat tenāstuta tato vai sa svargaṃ lokamāśnuta tadetatsvargyaṃ sāma aśnute svargaṃ lokaṃ ya evaṃ veda tadūrdhveḷe bhavati bṛhato rūpaṃ bārhate'han tena vai rūpasamṛddham yadu kruṃṅāṅgiraso'paśyattasmātkrauñcamityākhyāyate vṛṣā matīnāṃ pavate vicakṣaṇa iti vṛṣaṇvatīrbhavanti bārhataṃ vā etadahastrauṣṭubhaṃ kṣatrasya rūpam > He saw this sāman. > He praised with it. > Then indeed he measured out day after day. > As to why this sāman is \[used\], they measure out day after day by it. > It was this that Kruṅ Āṅgirasa drank apart, day after day. > When people say, 'The curlew drinks milk apart \[from water\],' it is not the curlew that drinks it apart; > it was Kruṅ Āṅgirasa who drank apart day after day. > Kruṅ Āṅgirasa, desiring the heavenly world, practiced ascetic toil. > He saw this sāman. > He praised with it. > Then indeed he attained the heavenly world. > This is a sāman that leads to heaven. > He attains the heavenly world who knows thus. > It has an upward iḷā, the form of the Bṛhat, on the day connected with the Bṛhat. > Thereby it is endowed with proper form. > And because Kruṅ Āṅgirasa saw it, it is therefore called Krauñca. > 'The bull of thoughts clarifies himself, far-seeing' — thus there are \[verses\] containing the word 'bull'. > This day is connected with the Bṛhat, in the Triṣṭubh meter, the form of the ruling power. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [8.32.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.8.32.p1) tāsu yāmam yamamiva vā etadaharyaddvitīyam yathā vai yamau jāyeyātāmevametadahaḥ yamairvai yamotgamoravaṃ lokānniruṃhya lokamasyābhyārohat lokādeva dviṣantaṃ bhrātṛvyaṃ ruṃhya lokamasyābhyārohati ya evaṃ veda mantreṇarṣayo nidānavanto yāmena yamaḥ nidānavanto'sāmeti satramāsate nidānavanta eva bhavanti tadgṛhā vai nidānaṃ | prajā nidānaṃ | paśavo nidānaṃ | svargo loko nidānam nidānavānbhavati ya evaṃ veda yamaṃ vaivasvataṃ devā amuṣmai lokāyāsuvata so'kāmayata nidānavānasmim̐lloke syāmiti sa etāni yāmāni sāmānyapaśyat tairastuta tairasmim̐lloke nidānavānabhavat etannidāno ha vāva so'smim̐lloke etatprajā etaireva sāmabhirya evaitāni sāmāni veda tenāsmim̐lloke nidānavānyamasya putratāṃ gacchati ya evaṃ veda tadāhuḥ pitṛdevatyāni sāmāni īśvaraḥ purāyuṣo'muṃ lokametorityāyuriti vā stobhatyatho vāyuriti tathā ha purāyuṣo'muṃ lokaṃ naiti yadu yamo'paśyattasmādyāmamityākhyāyate > Upon them \[is sung\] the Yāma. > This day, the second, is, as it were, a twin. > Just as twins are born, so is this day. > By twin \[chants\] Yama \[ascended\]... having blocked \[him\] out of the world, he mounted his world. > He blocks his spiteful rival from his world and mounts his world, who knows thus. > By a mantra the ṛṣis possess a primary cause; by the Yāma, Yama \[possesses one\]. > They hold the sacrificial session \[thinking\]: 'May we possess a primary cause.' > They indeed come to possess a primary cause. > Now, the home is a primary cause; offspring is a primary cause; cattle are a primary cause; the heavenly world is a primary cause. > He comes to possess a primary cause who knows thus. > The gods consecrated Yama Vaivasvata for yonder world. > He desired: 'May I possess a primary cause in this world.' > He saw these Yāma sāmans. > He praised with them. > Through them he came to possess a primary cause in this world. > He has this as his primary cause in this world, and has these offspring, by these very sāmans, who knows these sāmans thus. > Thereby possessing a primary cause in this world, he attains sonship to Yama, who knows thus. > As to that, they say: 'These sāmans have the fathers as their deity.' > 'He is liable to go to yonder world before his full lifespan,' so one uses as a stobha 'āyus' (life), and also 'vāyus' (wind). > Thus indeed he does not go to yonder world before his full lifespan. > And because Yama saw it, it is therefore called Yāma. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.8.32) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.8.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.8.32) · Pramāṇa