Karmanirnaya 11_72

11_72

You drank of the earlier pressed Soma offerings belonging to the morning pressing. 'Lord of Bay Horses' means he who directs the senses [hari]; or, he who moves by means of bay horses. 'This midday pressing is yours alone.' 'And then' [atho] indicates another meaning. 'Pour, sprinkle the sweet Soma into your belly, and intoxicate yourself truly'—along with our protection. It is like the word 'drunk' [pīta]. Since it is an unprecedented drinking, only that drinking is primary; hence the word 'drunk'. Because it belongs exclusively to Indra, the midday pressing is 'alone'. 'Intoxicate yourself' refers to the third pressing, for intoxication occurs particularly there due to fullness. Thus is the three-pressing nature of the Ṣoḍaśin. It has the word 'bull' [vṛṣan], because of Indra's special fondness [for it]. Thus is the fourfold nature of the Ṣoḍaśin. 'He prospers' means he becomes thriving.
On the interspersed view, however: separating the lines, one should recite half-verse by half-verse. The verses of the previous [hymns] are the lines. The Gāyatrī verses [are recited] with the Paṅktis; but two lines of the Paṅktis remain, and with those two one should perform the Praṇava. The Uṣṇihs [are recited] with the Bṛhatīs; but one should make the final lines of the Uṣṇihs two each, the first having four syllables. Having divided the two-line verses into four parts, the first Triṣṭubh with the subsequent Jagatīs, one should insert the fourth syllable of the final [line], which is the final of the previous and the first of the subsequent, into the Anuṣṭubh among the other metres. One should place it at the end of the second and third quarter-verses of the two. With 'pracotana' in the earlier, with 'pracetaya' in the subsequent, having made the other lines into sixth lines in the subsequent [verses], one should recite by forming Anuṣṭubhs.
He attaches the five-syllable prefixes of the Mahānāmnīs to the eleven-syllable quarter-verses. Indeed, this Ṣoḍaśin is fashioned from all the metres. In that he attaches the five-syllable prefixes of the Mahānāmnīs to the eleven-syllable quarter-verses, he fashions it from all the metres. By means of the Ṣoḍaśin fashioned from all the metres, he who knows thus prospers. (3)