History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c93.522

v7.c93.522

Some examples of anga and angin may have to be given here. In 'vrīhīn prokṣati' (he sprinkles rice grains with water) the sprinkling (prokṣaṇa) is an *aṅga* (stands in a subsidiary relation to) of rice grains as directly shown by the objective case (vrīhīn). The prokṣaṇa (is motivated by) has the purpose of contributing to the transcendental result (the *apūrva*), since what is meant is that if, without the sprinkling of water on the rice grains, a sacrifice (yāga) were performed, apūrva would not be brought about. To take another example, ²¹⁴⁷ 'he takes hold of the bridle of the horse with (the mantra beginning with) 'they took hold of the bridle of ṛta (cosmic order)'. Here the direct assertion (śruti) shown by the objective case in 'raśanām' shows that that mantra stands in a subordinate relation to (is an anga of) the bridle of the horse, since the utterance of it when taking hold of the bridle of the horse effects a saṁskāra in the bridle and taking hold is also an anga of the horse bridle (which is in the objective case), just as prokṣaṇa is an anga of rice grains.