Upnishad

SR No.: 007670
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

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I ÅRANYAKA, 5 ADHYÂYA, 3 KHANDA, 3.
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15. In the third foot the word arka is auspicious.
16. The last foot is: Make our glory high as heaven over heaven. Thus wherever Brahmanic speech is uttered, there his glory will be, when he who knows this finishes with that verse. Therefore let a man who knows this, finish (the Nishkevalya) with that verse.
THIRD KHANDA? 1. Tat savitur vrinimahe (Rv. V, 82, 1-3) and adyâ no deva savitar (Rv. V, 82, 4-6) are the beginning (pratipad) and the next step (anukara) of the Vaisvadeva hymn, taken from the Ekâha ceremonial and therefore propers.
2. On that day 8 much is done now and then which has to be hidden, and has to be atoned for. Atonement is rest, the one-day sacrifice. Therefore at the end of the year the sacrificers rest on this atonement as their rest. He who knows this rests firm, and they also for whom a Hotri priest who knows this, recites this hymn.
3. Then (follows) the hymn addressed to Savitri, tad devasya savitur vâryam mahat (Rv. IV, 53). Verily, mahat, great, in this foot) is the end. This day too is the end. Thus the verse is fit for the day.
After finishing the Nishkevalya of the noon-libation, he explains the vaisvadevasastra of the third libation.
The norm of the Mahavrata is the Visva git, and the norm of that, the Agnishtoma Ekâha. The verses to be used for the Vaisvadeva hymn are prescribed in those normal sacrifices, and are here adopted.
. Cf. Ait. Âr. I, 2, 1, 2.
• Nothing higher than the great can be wished for or obtained.. Comm.
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