History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c52.41

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²⁶⁵⁶ Vide note 574 for the passage of Āśv. According to Āp. XVIII. 21. 3-4 and Kāt. XV. 8. 16 the ten ancestors on the father's side only should have been drinkers of Soma. Vide Lāṭ. IX. 2. 5-7. The वाराहश्रौत III. 3. 4. 18 says येषां दशासु न मीमांसेरंस्त ऋत्विजो यसर्पिणश्च (प्रसर्पिणश्च ?) पिबा (पि .ा ?) किं ब्राह्मणस्येत्युक्त्वा प्रसर्पति (प्रसर्पन्ति ?). The editor, Dr. Raghu Vira, was puzzled by this sūtra. It means (.when corrected as shown) that the priests and others who came to drink soma and could not trace ten generations of soma-drinkers entered after reciting a verse out of the verses that begin with the words 'pibā somam' (like Ṛg. VI. 17. 1 or VII. 22. 1) and the verse 'why do you ask the brāhmaṇa about his father or mother' (Kāṭhaka Saṁ. 30. 1 or Maitrāyaṇī S. IV. 8. 1). The verse is; किं ब्राह्मणस्य पितरं किमु पृच्छसि मातरम् । श्रुतं चेदस्मिन्वेद्यं स पिता स पितामहः ॥