Book Title: Questions of King Milinda Part 01
Author(s): T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford

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________________ X KANDA, I ADHYAYA, 3 BRAHMANA, I. 289 Great Rite thereby he obtains the Great Rite even in this (Agnishtoma). 9. And the Hotri recites seven metres-each subsequent one-versed (metre) increasing by four (syllables)—with the Virâg as an eighth these (eight) consist of three eighties and forty-five syllables. Now by the eighties thereof the eighties (of the mahad uktham) 1 are obtained, for the Great Litany is counted (or recited) by eighties (of triplets); and of the forty-five (syllables which remain) twenty-five are this twenty-five-fold body 2 and where the body is there, indeed, are (included) the head, and the wings and tail; and the twenty (syllables which remain) are the insertion 3 ;-thus much, then, is the Great Litany: thereby he obtains the Great Litany even in this (Agnishtoma). All these (three) are indeed obtained in the Gyotishtoma Agnishtoma: let him, therefore, perform offering with the Gyotish/oma Agnishtoma. ; THIRD BRAHMANA. 1. Pragâpati created living beings. From the out- (and in-) breathings he created the gods, and from the downward breathings the mortal beings; and 887-9); 10. towards the Mârgâlîya the Yâma (ii, p. 461); 11. 12. in front and behind the Sadas, the Ayus, and Navastobha (ii, pp. 450-51); 13. in front of the Gârhapatya the Risyasya sâman (ii, p. 324). 1 See p. 112, note 1. Viz. the body, as consisting of the ten fingers, the ten toes, the arms and legs, and the trunk. 3 Towards the end of the Mahad Uktham, in the portion representing the thighs, nine trish/ubh verses (Rig-veda III, 43, 1-8, and X, 55, 5) are inserted as an 'âvapanam.' [43] U Digitized by Google

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