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III ADHYAYA, 12 KANDIKÂ, 10.
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2. Then, stationing himself towards the northeast, he murmurs the Svasti-Åtreya and, 'Of what we are in fear, Indra' (Rig-veda VIII, 61, 13 seqq.), down to the end of the hymn.
KANDIKÂ 12.
1. When a battle is beginning, (the royal Purohita) should cause the king to put on his armour (in the following way).
2. (The Purohita) stations himself to the west of (the king's) chariot with (the hymn ?), 'I have brought thee hither; be here' (Rig-veda X, 173).
3. With (the verse), Like a thunder-cloud is his countenance' (Rig-veda VI, 75, 1), he should tender the coat of mail to him.
4. With the following (verse) the bow.
5. The following (verse) he should cause him to repeat.
6. He should murmur himself the fourth.
7. With the fifth he should tender the quiver to him.
8. When (the king) starts, the sixth. 9. The seventh (he recites) over the horses.
10. The eighth he should cause (the king) to repeat while looking at the arrows;
2. The Svasti-âtreya is the part of the hymn V, 51, which very frequently contains the word svasti (vv. II-15). There is a Khila appended to that hymn (Rig-veda, vol. iii, p. 30), which, according to Narayana, is also to be murmured on this occasion.
12, 2. According to Narayana the Pratîka here signifies not the verse, but the whole hymn, though a whole Pâda is given (comp. Srauta-sätra I, 1, 17).
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