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II ADHYÂYA, 6 KHANDA, 2.
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10. After (the student) has said, 'Recite, sir!'
11. The teacher, having pronounced the word Om, then causes the other one to say, "Recite the Savitri, sir!'
12. He then recites the Savitri to him, the verse "That glorious (splendour) of Savitar' (Rig-veda III, 62, 10); (firstly) pada by pâda, (then) hemistich by hemistich, (and finally) without a stop.
KHANDA 6.
1. 'Waters are ye by name; happy ones are ye by name; sappy ones are ye by name; undecaying ones are ye by name; fearless ones are ye by name; immortal ones are ye by name. Of you, being such, may I partake; receive me into your favour'-with these words (the teacher) makes the student sip water three times,
2. And hands over to him the staff with the five
the study of the Aranyaka the position is slightly different (VI, 3, 2). According to Narayana this Sūtra would contain a nishedha of the Sätras 828 and 829 of the Rig-veda-Prâtisakhya (p. ccxcii of Professor Max Müller's edition).
10, 11. The Indian tradition divides these Sätras after â kâryah, so that the words adhihi bho would have to be pronounced by the teacher. Thus also Narayana explains, â kârya adhihi bho 3 iti mânavakam uktvâ, &c. In my opinion it is the student or the students who say adhihi bho. Thus the Prátisakhya (Satra 831, ed. Max Müller) says, They invite him with the words adhihi bho 3, all the students the teacher, having embraced his feet.' Comp. also below, IV, 8, 12, the greater part of which Sätra is word for word identical with these rules; VI, 3,6; Gautama I, 46; Gobhila II, ro, 38.
6, 1, 2. Râmakandra : '... with this Mantra which the teacher tells him, and which he (the student) pronounces, he sips water
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