History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.511

v7.c93.511

This principle of anusaṅga cannot apply where words of a different type intervene between the several sentences. For example, when the animal to be offered is killed a long passage occurs which contains the²¹³⁹ words ‘saṁ te prāṇo vāyunā gacchatām, saṁ yajatrair-aṅgāni, saṁ yajñapatir-āśiṣā’ &c. (may your limbs be joined to the worshipful deities and may the sacrificer be united to blessing &c). Here the first clause is separated from the 3rd clause by a clause in which there are two words in the plural while the first and third clauses have two words in the singular; therefore there is no anuṣaṅga of the words of the first clause into the 2nd and one may employ for completing the sense of the 3rd clause some ordinary word from popular language (and not the words from the 1st clause).