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Nidanasutra 2.12: athāṣṭamaḥ prapāṭhakaḥ

Nidānasūtra 2.12

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Sanskrit

athāṣṭamaḥ prapāṭhakaḥ

2.12.2345

athāto ahīnāḥ
teṣāmukto dravyāṇāmanvayaḥ
athāpi daśarātrāvalopāhīnāḥ
tatra siddhāni dāśarātrikāṇi dravyāṇi
āhīnikyā rātreḥ śrautakakṣasyarco'panayati
satraṃ cāhīnaṃ ca vyāvivartayiṣan
tatraitāḥ karoti -panyaṃpanya̱mitsotāra̱ḥ iti
etāḥ sutavṛtīnām̐ sthāne sutavatya iti
madhyamasya rātriparyāyasya hotṛṣāmaṇī vicārayanti
daivodāsaṃ vā syādaurdhvasadmanaṃ veti
vikalpo vā syāt
api vā daivodāsamahīne kuryāt
pūrvādhyāyaṃ pūrve yajñasthāne aurdhvasadmanaṃ satreṣu uttarādhyāyamuttare yajñasthāne
athāpyasmin satravādarūpo bhavati
aurdhvasadmanamapi śarvarīṣu prohanti | iti
atha khalvāha--triṇidhanaṃ bhavati iti
kathaṃ triṇidhanam̐ syāditi
etānyeva nidhanāni vyavasyanta upeyuḥ suvṛktibhī

Now, therefore, the multi-day rites (ahīna).
The continuity of their materials has been explained.
Moreover, the ahīnas that omit the ten-day period:
there the materials of the ten-day period are established.
He removes the verses of the Śrautakakṣa from the night-rite of the ahīna,
wishing to distinguish the satra and the ahīna.
There he employs these: 'Praise, praise, O pressers...'
These containing the word suta ('pressed') replace those having the form of suta.
Concerning the middle night-round (rātriparyāya), they deliberate about the two Hotṛ-sāmans:
whether it should be the Daivodāsa or the Aurdhvasadmana.
Or there should be an option;
or rather, he should employ the Daivodāsa in an ahīna.
[Employing] the earlier lesson in the earlier place of the sacrifice, [and] the Aurdhvasadmana in satras, [employing] the later lesson in the later place of the sacrifice.
Moreover, in this [text] there is the wording of a satra:
'They also introduce the Aurdhvasadmana during the night-chants.'
Now, indeed, he says: 'It has three cadences (triṇidhana).'
How would it have three cadences?
Fixing upon these very cadences, they should enter with the verses: 'With well-fashioned songs...'

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2.12.2345-2

rnṛmādanā

'...delighting men...'

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m bhare

'...in battles...'

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ṣu vā

'...or...'

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