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197 अहो कष्टमहो कष्टं तत्त्वं विज्ञायते न हि।
BT ATT Teat fastnet fall?!! 1. Abo kaştamaho kaştam tattvam vijnayato na hizo
Aho kasta maho kaştam tattvam vijnāyate na hi. · 1. Alas ! fie on us, Alas! fie on us, true knowledge is verily
not found out; Alas-1 fie on us, Alas! fie on us, true knowledge is verily not found out.
As instructed, the two Sadhūs went at meal-time to the sacrificial hall, which was decorated with banners and fil of various shapes and colours, with portal arches of variegated flowers and leaves, where vessels containing sacrificial water for sipping were placed at different places near the main entrance, where religious students practising chastity were busy in kindling sacrificial fire, where a number of goats were tied to sacrificial post, where fire was blazing on the Vedi shaped sacrificial altar, where various sacrificial utensils filled with different kinds of oblation-materials were carefully arranged, where numerous devout Brābmins were sitting with the object of witnessing the sacrificial ceremonies, and the sacrifi, cial hall where a number of learned Brāhmins well-yersed in sacrificial rituals were entirely occupied in offering different kinds of oblation-materials accompanied by utterances of various sacred hymns.
The Sadbūs stood at the main entrance of the hall and requested for food. The Brahmins dismissed them without giving them any food. The Sadhūs, then, left the main entrance of the sacrificial hall loudly uttering, as instructed, the verse “ Aho kastam, aho kaştam etc.”
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Sayyambhava-bhatta, the well-known sacrificial ritualist, who was sitting near the main-entrance, distinctly over-heard the verse recited by the Sādjūs and began pondering over it.
