Mimamsasutra 42.2.17-2.p1

42.2.17-2.p1

vāmadevyasāmno yonau dvayorardhayormadhya okāradvayena ho śabdena hāyīśabdena ca niṣpannaḥ stoma evamāmnātaḥ- ’o o ho hāyī’ iti| so'yaṃ stobho nottarayoratidiśyate| kutaḥ| agītitvāt| ’yadyonyāṃ taduttarayorgāyati’ iti gītimātramatidiśyate| tatra prathamāyā ṛco varṇā yathā nātidiśyante, tathā stobhā api| iti prāpte-

In the base verse of the Vāmadevya-sāman, between the two halves, an interjection composed of two o-sounds, the word *ho*, and the word *hāyī* is recited thus: ‘*o o ho hāyī*’. This musical interjection is not transferred to the two subsequent verses. Why? Because it is non-chant. In ‘whatever [he sings] on the base verse, that he sings on the two subsequent verses’, chant alone is transferred. In this regard, just as the phonemes of the first verse are not transferred, so also the musical interjections [are not]. Such being the proposal—