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IV ADHYÂYA, 5 KHANDA, 13.
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Come to our sacrifice, O you that are worthy of sacrifice, with care;' 'Whosoever, be he ours, be he alien;' 'Look on, look about;' 'Come here, Agni, the Maruts' friend;' 'The oblation, O king, cooked for thee :' each time two verses,
9. “That blessing and bliss we choose'—this one verse (the first and last verse of each Mandala).
10. (Taking something) of the remnants of the sacrificed (food) they partake of that sacrificial food with this (verse), I praised Dadhikråvan' (Rigveda IV, 39, 6).
11. They sip water, sit down,
12. Murmur the Mahâvyâhritis, the Savitri, and the auspicious hymns commencing from the beginning of the Veda,
13. And cause the teacher to pronounce auspicious wishes.
9. According to Kaushitaki, the oblations are made with the first and last rikas of each Mandala. The last rik of the tenth Mandala quoted here, tak kham yor å vrinimahe, is different from the verse with which our Samhitâ (the Såkala Samhita of the Rig-veda) closes. It is well known that tak kham yor â vrinimahe is the last verse in the Bashkala Sakha which was adopted by the Sankhayana school (comp. Indische Studien, IV, 431; Weber, Verzeichniss der Berliner Sanskrit-Handschriften, p. 314, &c.; Indische Literaturgeschichte, second edition, Nachtrag, p. 2). It was also known long since that the Bashkala Sakhâ of the Rig-veda contains eight hymns more than the Såkala Sâkha. The Karanavy@ha Bhashya (comp. Dr. von Schroeder's Introduction to his excellent edition of the Maitrầyanî Samhitâ, vol. i, p. xxiv), known to me through the kindness of Professor Weber, tells which eight hymns these are. There it is said (folio 22 of Professor Weber's MS.) that in the Bashkala Samhitâ there followed after VIII, 48 the first two of the Vâlakhilya hymns, after VIII, 94 the Vâlakhilya hymns 3-7, and at the end of the whole collection the so-called samgñana hymn (see Professor Max Müller's edition, vol. vi, p. 32), which ends with the very verse quoted in our Satra, tak kham yor å vrinimahe.
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