History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c51.111

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²⁶⁰² This summons is called 'āhāva' (from the root 'hve' to call) and this is the āhāva in all śastras in the morning pressing (Āśv. V. 9. 2). The most common pratigara uttered by the adhvaryu is ओथामो दैष (pronounced as दैवा) while at the first āhāva it is the one given above in the text. Vide Āśv. V. 9. 4-10, Āp. XII. 27. 11-17, Sat. VIII. 8. pp. 896-898 for various modes of the pratigara. The Tai. S. III. 2. 9. 5 puts the pratigara as 'śomsāmo daiveti pratyāhvayate'. प्रतिगर is explained as प्रतिगीर्यते प्रत्युच्चार्यत इति (com. on Āśv. V. 9. 4 and Sat. VIII. 8. p. 897). In the mid-day pressing the āhāva is अध्वर्यो शों3-सांवो3म् (Āśv. V. 14. 3) at the beginning of all śastras and in the evening pressing it is अध्वर्यो शोशों3सावो3म् (Āśv. (*Continued from last page*) V. 18. 4). The *āhāva* is required at the beginning of all śastras whether recited by the hotṛ, the maitrāvaruṇa, brāhmaṇācchaṁsin or acchāvāka. Vide Āśv. V. 10. 10–12; about the śastras these priests recite and how each of the śastras they recite in the morning and evening pressings contains four āhāvas and how the śastras in the mid-day pressing have five āhāvas. Āśv. (V. 10. 13–17) specifies the places where āhāva is to be uttered. Various explanations are given of the pratigara e.g. Sāyaṇa on Ait. Br. XII. 1 explains ‘**शोंसावो दैवोम्**’ as **हे होतस्त्वं शंस तत्र आमोदैव हर्ष एवास्माकमतोऽनुज्ञा दत्ता**।’. It appears that the āhāva and pratigara came to have a mystic significance and so several permutations and combinations of them arose. Vide Āp. XIII. 13. 8-10, Sat. IX. 3. p. 925 where three different forms of pratigara in the Vaiśvadeva śastra of the evening pressing are given. Vide Haug's tr. of Ait. Br. pp. 141–142 n. on **आहाव** and **प्रतिगर**.