History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c48.119.3

v3.c48.119.3

III. 27. 1) and the last verse (ā juhota Ṛg. V. 28. 6) thrice. They are all to be repeated in the same pitch²³⁵⁵ (not minding udātta, anudātta or svarita accents) i. e. *ekaśruti*. Jaimini IX. 1. 33 states that whatever ṛk is the first or last (whether 'pra vo vājā' &c. or any other) is to be repeated thrice (i. e. repetition three times is an attribute due to the place of a verse and it is not an attribute of any particular verse). The syllable 'om' is to be added at the end of each verse and the adhvaryu sitting down near the āhavanīya throws into the āhavanīya fire a samidh the moment 'om' is uttered by the hotṛ at the end of a verse. The sacrificer then utters at each samidh 'agnaya idam na mama'. In this way when eleven samidhs have been offered, all the remaining samidhs (except one kept aside for the *anuyājas*) are offered into the fire the moment the last verse but one (viz. samiddho agna, Ṛg. V. 28. 5) or the last verse (ā juhotā, Ṛg. V. 28. 6) is recited. Āśv. (I. 2. 8–22) gives detailed rules about how these sāmidhenī verses are to be recited. The note below would illustrate the method of their recital.²³⁵⁶ The hotṛ repeats the *nigada* 'O fire, you are great, you are brāhmaṇa (the impulse to prayers), you are Bhārata (the sustainer)' in such a way as to join it with the last 'om' repeated after the last sāmidhenī verse and then makes a stop.