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VEDIC HYMNS.
mission of an occasional Gâgata pâda is more in accordance with the habit of the Vedic poets. Thus I should scan :
V, 33, 4. vrishā samatsu dăsasya nama kit⚫. V, 41, 5. raya eshe vase dadhita dhih.
After what I have said before on the real character of the teaching of the Prâtisâkhya, I need not show again that the fact of Uvata's counting ta of dadhita as the tenth syllable is of no importance in determining the real nature of these hymns, though it is of importance, as Professor Kuhn remarks (Beiträge, vol. iii, p. 451), in showing that Uvata considered himself at perfect liberty in counting or not counting, for his own purposes, the elided syllable of avase.
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VII, 4, 6. māpsavaḥ pāri shādāmā mādŭvak.
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Final pâdas of Trishtubhs ending in In VI, 1, 4,
scarce.
bhadrâyâm te ranayanta samdrishtau,
it would be very easy to read bhadrâyâm te samdrishtau ranayanta; and in X, 74, 2,
dyaur na varebhih krinavanta svaih,
we may either recognise a Gâgata pâda, or read
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dyaur na varebhih krinavanta svaih,
which would agree with the metre of hymn X, 77.
87.
131-.
Pâdas ending in - do not occur as final in any Traishubha hymn, but as many Gâgata pâdas occur in the body of Traishtubha hymns, we have to scan them as dodecasyllabic:
I, 63, 4. tvam ha tyad indra kodih sakhā.
IV, 26, 6. părāvatah sakuno mandram mādām.
The adjective pâvaka which frequently occurs at the end of final and internal pâdas of Trishtubh hymns has always
• Professor Kuhn has finally adopted the same scanning, Beiträge, vol. iv, p. 184.
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| SR No. | 007685 |
| Book Title | Grihya Sutras |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Hermann Oldenberg |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1886 |
| Total Pages | 2642 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 49 MB |