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verses created by Pragâ pati. At the thirtieth arrangement they came to an end in the Parktis; and because it was at the thirtieth arrangement that they came to an end, there are thirty nights in the month; and because it was in the Parktis, therefore Pragapati is pânkta ' (fivefold). There are one hundred-andeight hundred 2 Panktis.
24. He then arranged the two other Vedas into twelve thousand Brihatis, -eight (thousand) of the Yagus (formulas), and four of the Sâman (hymns) —for of that extent is what was created by Pragapati in these two Vedas. At the thirtieth arrangement these two came to an end in the Parktis; and because it was at the thirtieth arrangement that they came to an end, there are thirty nights in the month; and because it was in the Panktis, therefore Pragâpati is 'pânkta. There were one hundredand-eight hundred ? Panktis.
25. All the three Vedas amounted to ten thousand eight hundred eighties (of syllables) ; muhůrta by muhûrta he gained a fourscore (of syllables), and muhûrta by muhûrta a fourscore was completed 4.
26. Into these three worlds, in the form of) the
1 The Pankti consists of five pâdas (feet) of eight syllables each.
? That is to say, 10,800 Panktis, which, as the Pankti verse has 40 syllables, again amount to 432,000 syllables.
The three Vedas, according to the calculations in paragraphs 23 and 24, contain 2 x 432,000 = 864,000 syllables, which is equal to 80 X 10,800. On the predilection to calculate by fourscores, see p. 112, note I.
That is, within the year, for the year has 360 x 30 = 10,800 muhůrtas, which is just the amount of eighties of which the three Vedas were said to consist. I do not see how any division of the muhúrta' itself into eighty parts as supposed by Professor Weber, Ind. Streifen, I, p. 92, note 1) can be implied here.
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