"Agni, O men, with your reflections, from the two fire-sticks..." in the stotriya and anurūpa verses of the Agniṣṭoma-sāman, [there are] six [in each].

27.2.20

Those are twelve syllables.

27.3.1

The hotṛ should supply [them] in the morning recitation.

27.3.2

He should not mind; it is accomplished right here.

27.3.3

"An Uṣṇih arises," so we think.

27.3.4

Or rather, [it is] Gāyatrī.

27.3.5

One should make it correspond in the morning litany.

27.3.6

One should not heed that; right here indeed it has corresponded.

27.3.7

The ājya [recitation] is: "Agni, today like a horse with praises…"

27.3.8

This has been created for the tenth day; one should not make [it] correspond.

27.3.9

One should not heed that; right here it has corresponded.

27.3.10

The prauga [recitation] is by Madhucchandas; its Brāhmaṇa explanation has been stated.

27.3.11

With the aticchandas verse, "At the three Trikadruka pressings the buffalo, barley-mixed, powerful…," he begins the Marutvatīya [recitation].

27.3.12

It, when made to correspond, has sixty-four syllables.

27.3.13

They amount to two Anuṣṭubhs.

27.3.14

Thus it has corresponded.

27.3.15

With "They swell with water…" he recites two pragāthas: "Sing great things for Indra…" and "For Indra, the great, [bring forward]…"

27.3.16

Thus it has corresponded.

27.3.17

The Marutvatīya [recitation] belongs to the one-day rite.

27.3.18

The one-day rite is a firm foundation, solely for a firm foundation.

27.4.1

With "By what wondrous help will he be present to us…", "By what help of yours…", the Rathantara [sāman] is carried on the womb of the Vāmadevya [sāman], an Agni-chant upon verses addressed to Indra.

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That is a pair, a form for procreation.

27.4.3

As many pragāthas as there are, so many are the Uṣṇih triplets.

27.4.4

One dvipadā verse shares in the dhāyyā inserted verse;

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the other [shares in] the seventeenth [verse] of the hymn.

27.4.6

Thus it has corresponded.

27.4.7

The Niṣkevalya [recitation] belongs to the one-day rite.

27.4.8

The one-day rite is a firm foundation; the tenth day is a firm foundation.

27.4.9

The metre of dvipadā verses is indeed foundational, solely for a firm foundation.

27.4.10

With the aticchandas verse, "Towards that god Savitṛ, within the two bowls, of wise insight…," he begins the Vaiśvadeva [recitation].

27.4.11

It, when made to correspond, has sixty-four syllables.

27.4.12

They amount to two Anuṣṭubhs.

27.4.13

Thus it has corresponded.

27.4.14

The anucara verse contains [the word] "abhi"; its Brāhmaṇa explanation has been stated.

27.4.15

Now the third pressing belongs regularly to the one-day rite.

27.4.16

The one-day rite is a firm foundation, solely for a firm foundation.

27.4.17

There, before the hymn "ānobhadrāḥ…", he recites the Praśukrīya hymn.

27.4.18

The one-day rite is a firm foundation; the tenth day is a firm foundation.

27.4.19

Dvipadā verses are indeed a foundational metre, solely for a firm foundation.

27.5.1

The Vāmadevya becomes the Agniṣṭoma-sāman upon Virāj verses.

27.5.2

The Virāj is prosperity and food.

27.5.3

It is for the attainment of prosperity, the Virāj, and food.

27.5.4

Moreover, the Vāmadevya is pacification, a healing medicine.

27.5.5

Pacification and a healing medicine are thus made at the end of the sacrifice.

27.5.6

Now, as to the fact that they undertake the supplementary śastra of the collected [rite],

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thereby indeed they obtain the supplementary śastra.

27.5.8

Now, this is the milking of the tenth day:

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so that there may be a thousand and fifteen Anuṣṭubhs,

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so should one make this day correspond.

27.5.11

Having set aside fifteen, from each hundred he sets aside four.

27.5.12

Those are forty.

27.5.13

The earlier ones are fifteen.

27.5.14

Those set aside are fifty-five.

27.5.15

Then the other thirty are groups of thirty-two.

27.5.16

Now this is the metrical-line Anuṣṭubh:

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Of the Gāyatrī and the Uṣṇih there are six feet; of the Virāj, three: those are nine;

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four of the Bṛhatī: those are thirteen;

27.5.19

five of the Paṅkti: those are eighteen;

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four of the Triṣṭubh: those are twenty-two;

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eight of the Jagatī and the aticchandas: those are thirty;

27.5.22

two of the Dvipadā: those are thirty-two.

27.5.23

Thus this metrical-line Anuṣṭubh becomes the thirty-first.

27.6.1

Now this is the divine Anuṣṭubh:

27.6.2

Eight Vasus, eleven Rudras, twelve Ādityas, Indra as the thirty-second—thus this divine Anuṣṭubh becomes the thirty-second.

27.6.3

Now, those fifty-five which were set aside—

27.6.4

Those [amount to] forty-four Paṅktis.

27.6.5

Then, what is forty of them is the udder.

27.6.6

Then, the four that are left over are the teats.

27.6.7

This Anuṣṭubh of chant-syllables, by means of this udder and these teats, streams forth to this self of Indra, the vow day.

27.6.8

It streams forth with all food, with all saps, with all desires, with all immortality.

27.6.9

Indeed, by its overflow, the Chandomas increase both in praise-songs and in recitations.

27.6.10

For indeed, what one knows, of that nature one becomes.

27.6.11

He who, knowing thus, beyond this life attains to this self of Indra, the vow day,

27.6.12

to him this Anuṣṭubh of chant-syllables, by means of this udder and these teats, streams forth with all food, with all saps, with all desires, with all immortality,

27.6.13

[to him] who recites the tenth day thus accomplished.

27.6.14

Therefore one should recite the tenth day thus accomplished.

27.7.1

Now, as to their undertaking the redundant Ukthya,

27.7.2

it is the mind alone that they thereby please.

27.7.3

They recite along with all sacrifices;

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for this is the measure of the mind.

27.7.5

When the day is concluded, before the patnīsamyājas, at this time they crawl up [to the sadas],

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saying: 'The wives are not fit for sacrifice, for they are outside the altar.'

27.7.7

However, the established rule is indeed: 'When the patnīsamyājas are concluded.'

27.7.8

For at this point only a small world of the rival is left over.

27.7.9

Having crawled up, they chant on the verses of the Sārparājñī.

27.7.10

This [earth] is the Sārparājñī;

27.7.11

for she is queen of whatever crawls.

27.7.12

Moreover, speech is the Sārparājñī;

27.7.13

for speech is queen of whatever crawls.

27.7.14

Moreover, the cow is the Sārparājñī;

27.7.15

for the cow is queen of whatever crawls.

27.7.16

'This spotted bull has stepped forward'—he should not omit this triplet, for the non-interruption of the stotriya.

27.7.17

'Bestow manly power upon us'—

27.7.18

manly power is food;

27.7.19

he thereby places food in the sacrifice and in the sacrificers.

27.8.1

He mentions himself first;

27.8.2

thus his own self does not become excluded.

27.8.3

'O listener to the call of Vātāpi'—

27.8.4

Indra is Vātāpi;

27.8.5

he, having reached the wind, smote [the enemies] from their bodies.

27.8.6

The adhvaryu goes back.

27.8.7

In the unexpressed Gārhapatya, he offers two Prājāpatya oblations.

27.8.8

Prajāpati is the Gārhapatya;

27.8.9

and Prajāpati is unexpressed.

27.8.10

And the chant and the recitation are concluded in the oblation.

27.8.11

The stotra is finished, the śastra is finished, the theological discussion is finished.

27.8.12

From then on, they may sacrifice as they desire;

27.8.13

then they may consume [the soma].

27.8.14

'This Vena'—these are visibly the bodies of Prajāpati; the hotṛ should recite them:

27.9.1

'Both the eater of food and the mistress of food'—

27.9.2

this [earth] is food; yonder [sky] is the mistress of food.

27.9.3

'Both the auspicious and the fair'—

27.9.4

the auspicious is Soma;

27.9.5

the fair is cattle.

27.9.6

'Both the restless and the fearless'—

27.9.7

the restless is the wind;

27.9.8

for he does not rest.

27.9.9

The fearless is death;

27.9.10

for he is not afraid.

27.9.11

'Both the unattained and the unobtainable'—

27.9.12

this [earth] is the unattained;

27.9.13

yonder sky is the unobtainable.

27.9.14

'Both the unassailed and the unassailable'—

27.9.15

this Agni is the unassailed;

27.9.19

the one without rivals is the year.

27.9.20

The householder is indeed that one who burns yonder.

27.9.21

For he is the master of the houses;

27.9.22

the seasons are his houses;

27.9.23

he is the master.

27.9.24

And he is the god who has struck away evil.

27.9.25

The adhvaryu runs up.

27.9.26

They close the two doors of the sadas and of the hall.

27.10.1

They grasp the audumbarī post.

27.10.2

The udumbara is indeed sap and food;

27.10.3

[they do so] to obtain sap and food.

27.10.4

The hotṛ should place his hands uppermost,

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[thinking,] 'May I be uppermost.'

27.10.6

He indeed becomes uppermost.

27.10.7

Restraining their speech, they sit until the sighting of the stars.

27.10.8

Indeed, when beings rest restraining their speech, they invigorate speech,

27.10.9

[thinking,] 'May we in the end prosper with swollen, undistributed speech.'

27.10.10

When the stars are visible, an uninitiated person standing outside says, 'The initiated [knows]!' or 'He knows!'

27.10.11

They uncover the two doors of the sadas;

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likewise of the hall.

27.10.13

Coming out just as they had entered, along the end of the mārjālīya, they release their sight toward the stars [reciting], 'That eye placed by the gods, bright, rising…'