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XII KÂNDA, 3 ADHYAYA, 3 BRÂHMANA, 11. 171
5. The gods then spake, 'Find ye out that sacrificial performance which shall be a substitute for one of a thousand years; for what man is equal thereto that he could get through with a performance of) a thousand years ?'
6. They saw the Visvagit with all the Prishthas? to be an accelerated Soma-feast in lieu of the Prishthya-shadaha, for there are those (same) Stomas, those Prishthas, and those metres.
7. They saw the Prishthya-shadaha to be an accelerated Soma-feast in lieu of the Dvadasâha, for there are those (same) Stomas, those Prishthas, and those metres ?.
8. They saw the Dvâda sâha to be an accelerated Soma-feast in lieu of (a session of) a years, for there are those (same) Stomas, those Prishthas, and those metres.
9. They saw the (session of a) year to be an accelerated Soma-feast in lieu of the Tåpaskita, for there are those (same) Stomas, those Prishthas, and those metres.
10. They saw the Tåpaskita to be an accelerated Soma-feast in lieu of the thousand years' performance, for there are those (same) Stomas, those Prishthas, and those metres.
11. He passes a year with the rites of initiation,
For such a day's performance with all the Prishtha-såmans, see part iii, introd., p. xx seq.
* The Dvadasâha, or twelve-days' performance, includes a Prishthya-shadaha as its second to seventh days.
* The one year's session includes a Dasarâtra, or ten-days' performance, forming the central part of the Dvadasâha; and the first and last days of the latter being, like those of the Gavam ayanam, a pråyaniya and udayaniya Atiratra.
See part iv, p. 317, note 2.
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