Satapatha Bramhana Part 02

SR No.: 007678
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1885
Total Pages: 2521
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 44 MB

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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
(he responds with a formula) containing once (the verb) to rejoice (mad) ?,' for she (Trishtubh) came back, leaving one syllable behind; and with that same (formula) he then completes her, makes her whole, -
11. When trishtubh verses were recited. At the evening Soma feast (the Adhvaryu responds with a formula) containing thrice (the verb) to rejoice?,' for she (Gagati) came back leaving three syllables behind; and with these (formulas) he then completes her, makes her whole,
12. When (the hymn) to Heaven and Earth is recited 3. Now these creatures subsist on those two,
verses (or pâdas), nivids, &c., viz. 'Othâmo daiva,'-or, Othâvo daivom, whenever the Hotri puts in the sacred syllable 'om.'
Tasmat kâranâd gayatra-prâtahsavane samsiddham avikritam vidhâsyamânam omantam prati-grihnîyât,' Sây. For the Adhvaryu's response, 'samsâmo daiva,' to the Hotri's summons (âhâva), see p. 326, note 1.
1 When the first verse of the trishtubh hymn, Rig-veda X, 73, is recited by the Hotri in the Marutvatîya Sastra at the midday feast, the Adhvaryu's response is 'madamo daiva' (we rejoice, O divine one). Kâty. X, 3, 8; cf. Weber, Ind. Stud. X, p. 37.
. According to Kâty. X, 6, 6'madamo daiva' is optionally the Adhvaryu's response at the recitation in the Agnimârutra Sastra of three of the so-called Anupânîya (or Svâdushkiliya) trishtubh verses VI, 47,1-4 (see note on IV, 4, 2, 18). Possibly the present paragraph may refer to those verses, in which case the words 'when trishtubh verses are recited' would begin a fresh paragraph. Sayana, however, seems to take it in the same way as above; cf. also the Kanva reading in next note.
* This is the (Gagati) hymn I, 159 recited in the Vaisvadeva Sastra. According to Kâty. X, 6, 5, the response is to be thrice (after each of the three first verses) madamo daiva. The Kânva has for paragraphs 10-12, 'At the morning feast he responds by a complete (formula), for complete Gayatri returned. At the midday feast he responds once with one containing "mad," when he
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