Mimamsasutra 42.2.14-3
Jaiminīyanyāyamālā 42.2.14-3
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42.2.14-3
brūmaḥ- astyeva niyamo gāne| kutaḥ| sāmavede gānasyaiva prakṛtatvāt| ṛcāṃ saṃhitāpāṭho'tra gānāyaiva| nahyādhāramantareṇa gātuṃ śakyate| athocyeta- ’ayaṃ sahastra’- ityṛkpratīkapūrvakeṇa vākyenopasthānavidhānādvākyasya prakaraṇātprabalatvādṛcaivopasthānam- iti| tanna| prakṛtapragītamantravācinyāḥ ’etayā’ iti sarvanāmaśruteḥ prabalataratvāt| tasmāt- pragītayopasthānam ||
We reply: there is indeed a restriction to chanting. Why? Because in the Sāmaveda chanting alone is contextual. The recitation of the ṛcs in the Saṃhitā is here solely for the sake of chanting; for it is not possible to chant without a substratum. Now if it be said: since reverent attendance is enjoined by the sentence headed by the initial words of the ṛc, ‘This thousand...’, and since a sentence is stronger than context, reverent attendance is with the ṛc alone;—that is not so. For the direct Vedic statement of the pronoun ‘with this’, which denotes the contextual sung mantra, is stronger still. Therefore, reverent attendance is with the sung [verse].
42.2.14-3.p1
(yājyānuvākyādīnāṃ tānena prayogasādhakaṃ) tṛtīyavarṇakamāracayati-
He sets forth the third formulation (establishing the performance of the offering-verses, invocatory-verses, and the like in monotone):
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