History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c72.52

v5.c72.52

⁴⁵³ This is rather a very obscure stanza The A. V. reads 'pavate' for 'patatī'. 'Trikadruka' occurs frequently in connection with Soma (as in Ṛg II 22 1; VIII 92,21). Sāyaṇa explains that for the performance of Trikadruka sacrifices Yama gives protection and that he comes to the six wide ones for supervising over what was done or not done The six are mentioned in Śat Br I.5 1.22 as fire, earth, water, wind, day and night The six wide ones are referred to in Ṛg VI 47 3. The conception is rather vague The meaning probably is that in the Trikadruka sacrifices the Bṛhatsāma is sung and it reverberates throughout the universe (symbolized as the six wide ones) and that all the verses recited in the several metres do the same.