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AITAREYA-ARANYAKA.
Pratihâra in five ways, he performs the Upadrava in five ways, he performs the Nidhana in five ways ?. All this together forms one thousand Stobhas, or musical syllables ?
4. Thus also are the Rik verses, contained in the Nishkevalya, recited (by the Hotri) in five orders. What precedes the eighty trikas, that is one order, then follow the three sets of eighty trikas each, and what comes after is the fifth order 3.
Gayatra is formed out of the Rik (III, 62, 10) tat savitur varenyam. The Rathantara is formed out of the Rik (VII, 32, 22) abhi två süra nonuma. The Brihat is formed out of the Rik (VI, 46, 1) tvam id dhi havâmahe. The Bhadra is formed out of the Rik (X, 157, 1) imâ nu kam. The Ragana is formed out of the Rik (VII, 27, 1) indram naro nemadhità.
The metres require no explanation.
In identifying certain portions of the Nishkevalya hymn with a bird, the head of the bird corresponds to the hymns indram id gâthinah, &c.; the right wing to the hymns abhi två süra, &c.; the left wing to the hymns tvam id dhi, &c.; the tail to the hymns ima nu kan, &c.; the body to the hymns tad id asa, &c. All this was explained in the first Aranyaka.
hacras sing the Rågana at the Mahâvrata, and in that Saman there are, as usual, five parts, the Prastava, Udgftha, Pratihâra, Upadrava, and Nidhana. The Prastotri, when singing the Prastava portions, sings them five times. The Udgåtri and Pratihartri sing their portions, the Udgitha and Pratihâra, five times. The Udgâtri again sings the Upadrava five times. And all the Udgâtris together sing the Nidhana five times.
The Stobha syllables are syllables without any meaning, added when verses have to be sung, in order to have a support for the music. See Rh. Up. I, 13. In singing the five Såmans, each five times, one thousand of such Stobha syllables are required.
& There are in the Nishkevalya hymn, which the Hotri has to recite, three sets of eighty trikas each. The first, consisting of Gayatris, begins with mahâr indro ya ogasa. The second, consisting of Brihatis, begins with mâ kid anyad. The third, consisting of Ushmihs, begins with ya indra somapâtama. These three sets form the food of the bird, as the emblem of the sastra. The hymns
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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 |