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AITAREYA-ARANYAKA.
19. By repeating the first and last verses three times each, they become one hundred and one verses.
20. There are five fingers, of four joints each, two pits in the elbow and the arm), the arm, the eye, the shoulder-blade; this makes twenty-five. The other three parts have likewise twenty-five each. That makes a hundred, and the trunk is the one hundred and first.
21. Hundred is life, health, strength, brightness. The sacrificer as the one hundred and first rests in life, health, strength, and brightness.
22. These verses become Trishtubh?, for the noonday-libation consists of Trishtubh verses.
THIRD KHANDAS 1. They say: "What is the meaning of prerkha, swing?' Verily, he is the swing, who blows (the wind). He indeed goes forward (pra + inkhate) in these worldş, and that is why the swing is called prenkha.
2. Some say, that there should be one plank, because the wind blows in one way, and it should be like the wind.
3. That is not to be regarded.
4. Some say, there should be three planks, because there are these three threefold worlds, and it should be like them.
1 The left side as well as the right, and then the left and right side of the lower body. Thus we have twenty joints of the five toes, a thigh, a leg, and three joints, making twenty-five on each side.
• Approach the Trishtubh metre of the last hymn. Comm.
& After having considered the Marutvatiya, he proceeds to consider the Nishkevalya. This has to be recited by the Hotri while sitting on a swing.
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| SR No. | 007670 |
| Book Title | Upnishad |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Max Muller |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1879 |
| Total Pages | 1835 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 35 MB |