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I ÄRANYAKA, 5 ADHYAYA, 2 KHANDA, 8.
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3. There they say: Why does he insert a Nivid among mixed Trishtubhs and Gagatis??' But surely one metre would never support the Nivid of this day, nor fill it: therefore he inserts the Nivid among mixed Trishtubhs and Gagatis.
4. Let him know that this day has three Nivids : the Vasa hymn is a Nivid, the Valakhilyas ? are a Nivid, and the Nivid itself is a Nivid. Thus let him know that day as having three Nivids.
5. Then follow the hymns vane na va (Rv. X, 29) and yo gâta eva (Rv. II, 12). In the fourth verse of the former hymn occur the words anne samasya yad asan manishầh, and they serve for the winning of proper food.
6. Then comes an insertion. As many Trishtubh and Gagati verses $, taken from the ten Mandalas and addressed to Indra, as they insert (between the two above-mentioned hymns), after changing them into Brihatts, so many years do they live beyond the (usual) age (of one hundred years). By this insertion age is obtained.
7. After that he recites the Saganfya hymn, wishing that cattle may always come to his offspring
8. Then he recites the Tärkshya hymn*. Târkshya is verily welfare, and the hymn leads to welfare. Thus (by reciting the hymn) he fares well 6.
1 According to the Prakriti of the Agnishtoma they ought to be all Trish/ubhs. Comm.
* These hymns occur in the eighty Brihati tristichs.
* From the Sambita, which consists of ten thousand verses. Comm.
• Rv. X, 178. Tärksha Garuda being the deity of the hymn, it is called Târkshya. 5 Cf. I, 5, 3, 13.
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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 |