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neither an offering nor a non-offering, and they do not carry the Sacrificer dead to the forest, and there is no violation of the sacrifice.
4. He completes (the sacrifice) with tame (beasts), -father and son part company?, the roads run together, the village-boundaries of two villages become contiguous, and no ogres, man-tigers, thieves, murderers, and robbers come to be in the forests.
FIFTH BRAHMANA. 1. Pragå pati poured forth the life-sap of the horse (asva-medha); when poured forth it went from him. Having become fivefold ?, it entered the year, and they (the five parts) became those half-months 8. He followed it up by means of the fifteenfold (sets of victims 4), and found it; and having found it, he took possession of it by means of the fifteenfold ones; for, indeed, they—to wit, the fifteenfold (sets) are a symbol of the half-months, and when he seizes the fifteenfold ones, it is the
1 Or, they exert themselves in different directions,—that is, as the commentator explains, because in peace they would not be forced to keep together, as they would have to do in troublous times. He, however, seems somehow to connect 'vy avasyatan' with the root "vas':- ksheme hi sati pitäputráv atra vi prithag vasatah; aksheme tu sambaddhav apy etàv atra vasatan.-Whilst in this passage the verb would hardly suggest an estrangement between father and son, this is distinctly the case in the parallel passage, Taitt. Br. III, 9, 1, 2, where, however, this contingency is connected with the completion of the sacrifice, not, as here, with tame, but with wild beasts.
? Or the Pankti metre, consisting of five octosyllabic pâdas. · · Viz. as consisting of thrice five days.
• See above, XIII, 2, 2, 11.
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