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III ADHYAYA, IO KANDIKA, II.
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3. With a loud voice (the words) following after the name.
4. Of inhalation and exhalation '-(this he says) with a low voice,
5. And (the verse), 'Come hither, Indra, with thy lovely-sounding, fallow-coloured (horses)' (Rig-veda III, 45, 1).
6. The aged one then murmurs, 'To inhalation and exhalation I, the wide-extended one, resort with thee. To the god Savitri I give thee in charge'and the verse.
7. When he has finished (that verse), and has muttered, 'Om! Forwards! Blessing!' and recited (over the student the hymn), 'The great bliss of the three' (Rig-veda X, 185)—(he should dismiss him).
8. On one who has been thus dismissed, danger comes from no side-thus it is understood (in the Sruti).
9. If he hears (on his way) disagreeable voices of birds, he should murmur the two hymns, 'Shrieking, manifesting his being' (Rig-veda II, 42, 43), and (the verse), 'The divine voice have the gods created' (Rig-veda VIII, 100, 11).
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10. Praise the renowned youth who sits on the war-chariot' (Rig-veda II, 33, 11)—if (he hears disagreeable voices) of deer.
II. From the direction, or from the (being) from which he expects danger, towards that direction he should throw a fire-brand, burning on both sides, or having twirled about a churning-stick from the right to the left, with (the words), 'Safety be to me, Mitra
6. I have translated, as Prof. Stenzler has also done, according to Sankhayana's reading, prânâ pânâ tvayâ. The 'aged one' is the teacher, the verse that which is quoted in Sûtra 5.
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