History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c51.109

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The adhvaryu with the ṛtu cup in his hand sits down near the door of the sadas in front of the hotṛ with his face to the east, mutters the words 'Iḍā, the summoner of gods' (Tai. S. III. 3. 2. 1). Then the hotṛ performs japa of a long passage²⁶⁰¹ (found in Āśv. V. 9. 1), he issues without uttering himkāra a call (āhāva) to the adhvaryu loudly viz. 'Śom3sāvo3m' (let us both praise)²⁶⁰² and recites inaudibly the prayer called ‘tūṣṇīṁśaṁsa.’ The adhvaryu stands up or bends his body with his face to the west at the door of the sadas and makes the response (*pratigara*) with ‘śoṁsāmo daiva’ (Āśv. V. 9. 5). There are several āhāvas and several pratigaras in the course of reciting all the texts connected with a śastra. The tūṣṇīṁśaṁsa is of three clauses or six clauses (vide below).²⁶⁰³ Then he loudly repeats twelve clauses called *nivid*, pausing at the end of each clause ‘fire kindled by the gods, kindled by Manu…… the hotṛ chosen by the gods……May the god bring the gods hither, may the god worship the gods, may he, Jātavedas, perform the rites’ (Ait. Br. X. 2, Āśv. V. 9. 12).²⁶⁰⁴ The Ait. Br. explains these clauses, says that they are to be loudly recited and calls them a puroruc for Jātavedas (Ait. Br. X. 7). This *nivid* is not to be combined with the Tūṣṇīṁśaṁsa, but the last word of the former is to be combined with the first verse of the ājya śastra, which is the name of the hymn Ṛg. III. 13 (verses 1–7). The first verse of this hymn is recited thrice, each half of that verse being kept separate from the next half (Āśv. V. 9. 15, 20-21) and 'om' being added to the end of the verse. At the end of the sixth verse the hotṛ repeats the āhāva (śo3ṁsāvo3m) and the adhvaryu responds with the pratigara ‘śo3ṁsāmo daiva.’ And then the hotṛ recites the 7th verse of Ṛg. III. 13 (which being the last verse of the śastra is called paridhānīyā, Āśv. V. 9. 23). At the end of the śastra, the adhvaryu responds with the word ‘om’ (Āśv. V. 9. 10). After the recitation of the śastra the hotṛ mutters ‘the recitation is concerned in speech; to thee for glory’ (Tai. S. III. 2. 9. 1). The adhvaryu then takes the Aindrāgna cup of Soma and the camasādhvaryus take the camasas and after āśravaṇa and pratyāśruta the adhvaryu issues a direction to hotṛ ‘O reciter of an *uktha* (i. e. śastra), repeat a yājyā verse for Soma.’ Then the hotṛ recites Ṛg. III. 25. 4 as the yājyā (Āśv. V. 9. 26) and when he utters ‘vau3ṣaṭ’ the adhvaryu offers the soma from his cup into the āhavanīya fire and after a second vouṣaṭ is uttered (with the words ‘somasyāgne vīhi3 vau3ṣaṭ’) the camasādhvaryus only shake the Nārāśaṁsa cups. The adhvaryu first partakes of the remnant from the soma cup and then the other priests who have camasas eat the contents of the camasas (Āp. XII. 28. 1-3).