[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v3.c48.121 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c48.121 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c48.121 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c48.121](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c48.121) ²³⁵² The passages नमः प्रवक्त्रे नम उपद्रष्ट्रे ...... जुषध्वम् constitute the entire \*japa\* which the hotṛ mutters, the last clause being Ṛg. X. 53. 4. This last is explained in Nirukta III. 8. The words नमः प्रवक्त्रे &c., are a \*sautra\* passage (Āśv. I. 2. 1) and have a parallel in Śāṅ. I. 4 ‘नमोऽग्नय उपद्रष्ट्रे नमो वायव उपश्रोत्रे नम आदित्यायानुख्यात्रे &c.’ - [Previous: v3.c48.120](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c48.120) - [Next: v3.c48.122](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c48.122) - [Up: v3.c48](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c48) ## Cites (4) - [Śāṅkhāyanaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.sankhayana-school.sankhayana.1.4) — Śāṅkhāyana, Sanskrit - [Āśvalāyanaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.asvalayana-school.asvalayana.1.2-1) — Āśvalāyana, Sanskrit - [Nirukta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta.yaska.3.8) — Yāska, Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.10.53.4) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c48.121](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c48.121) · Pramāṇa