Jaiminiyanyayamala 42.2.6-2
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42.2.6-2
He arranges the first interpretation in the fifth topical section: / Is the adaptation of the chant here onto two [verses] residing in the Chandaḥ [collection] or onto two residing in the Uttarā [collection]? / There would be an option because of no distinction; the latter [is correct] because the conventional name is stronger.
42.2.6-2.p1
There are two textual collections for the recitation of verses by the Sāmaveda chanters: the Chandaḥ and the Uttarā. There, in the text named Chandaḥ, only the verses that serve as the base verses of various chants are recited. In the Uttarā text, hymns consisting of triplets are recited. In a single triplet, the base verse occurring in the Chandaḥ is the first, and the other two are subsequent. This being established, when it is said: “He sings the Rathaṃtara on the two subsequent verses; what is on the base verse, that he sings on the two subsequent verses,” two kinds of “subsequent verses” are conceivable. In the Chandaḥ text of the Rathaṃtara, this verse, “abhi tvā śūra” (To thee, O hero), is recited as the base verse. Above it, verses such as “tvām iddhi havāmahe” (Thee indeed we invoke), which are base verses of chants like the Bṛhat, are recited. In the Uttarā text, however, in the hymn “ā tvā śūra,” after that verse, this [verse], “na tvā vām̐ anye” (None other than thee), which is not the base verse of any chant, is recited. There, in relation to the Chandaḥ text, two base verses of other chants are subsequent to its own base verse for the Rathaṃtara. In relation to the Uttarā text, the second and third [verses] occurring in the triplet are subsequent to its own base verse. If it is said that, there being no specific determinant, singing is upon whichever two subsequent verses;
42.2.6-2.p2
[we reply:] it is not so. The conventional name “uttarā” immediately comes to mind, because it is independent of a counterpart. The status of being subsequent in relation to a previously recited base verse, being understood with delay, is weak. Such status of being subsequent belongs only to the two recited in the Chandaḥ,