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XIII KÂNDA, 5 ADHYÂYA, I BRÂHMANA, II. 381
fights with Vritra,' he inserts the Nivid in the (hymn) of the one-day's sacrificed. The middayservice is (thus) set right.
11. Then as to the evening-service. The atikhandas verse (Vág. S. IV, 25), Unto that god Savitri within the two bowls (do I sing praises 2),' is the opening verse 8 of the Vaisvadeva (-sastra 4): the mystic import thereof is the same as of the former (atikhandas verse). The Anukara • (Rig-veda I, 24, 3-5), 'Unto (abhi) thee, (the lord of treasures), O god Savitri, (ever helpful we come for our share ...);' contains (the word) abhi,' as a form (sign) of victory (abhibhäti). Having recited the Savitra (triplet, VI, 71, 4-6), *Up rose this god Savitri, the friend of the house ...,' he inserts the Nivid in the (hymn) of the one-day's sacrifice. Having recited the four verses to Heaven and Earth (IV, 56, 1-4), “The mighty Heaven and Earth, the most glorious, here ...,' he inserts the Nivid in the (hymn I, 159) of the one-day's sacrifice. Having recited the Årbhava (hymn, IV, 34), 'Ribhu, Vibhvan, Indra, Våga, come ye to this our sacrifice ...,
· Viz. after the eighth verse of the hymn Rig-veda I, 32, the chief part of the normal Nishkevalya-sastra.
For the complete verse see III, 3, 2, 13. * This verse is again recited thrice, and thus takes the place of the ordinary opening triplet.
• For this Sastra, recited after the Ârbhava-Pavamâna-stotra, see part ü, p. 361.
• Âsv. Sr. X, 10, 6 prescribes the ordinary anukara V, 82, 4-7; whence Såyana on I, 24, 3 (-5) offers no indication of the ritualistic use of that triplet on this occasion.
• Viz. IV, 54, before the last verse of which the Nivid is inserted.
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