India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c11.s2.42
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c11.s2.42
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c11.s2.42
(8) *Vashatkāra*—As seen above, it was added after each *Yājyā* verse and pronounced by the Hotā as *pluta* and in a very loud voice (*Uchchaistarāṁ vā vashaṭkāraḥ*, I.2.35; cf. *Ait. Br.* III.1.7, *śanaistarām asya ṛicham uktvochchaistarāṁ vashaṭ kuryāt*; *i.e.* the *yājyā* verse to be repeated with a very low and the *vashaṭkāra* with a very loud voice). As soon as *Vaushaṭ* is uttered the Adhvaryu throws the oblation into the fire. *Vashaṭ* (I.2.35; II.3.16) and *Vaushaṭ* (VIII.2.91) were variants of one and the same word, just as आश्रावय and ओ३श्रावय were variants in the different *Sākhās*.