thousand verses ; — if it docs not rather refer to the extent of the Rig-veda, consisting of rather more than a thousand (1028) hymns. Cp. also 'the thousandfold progeny of Va/i,' p. 414, note 3.
^ The Kawva text has much the same reasoning, but does not ascribe it to any one.
^ In this and all other cases the text has ' to those three (ten &c.).' It is not clear in what manner he is to divide the ten cows between the three priests, unless indeed he is to repeat the same process three times, giving the odd cow each time to another priest. The Kaz/va text only mentions two of the cases here given, viz. that if he intends to give one cow to each (ekaikam),
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any one, let him pass over a decad to two such.
Thus up to a hundred : and thus this perfect Vira^
of his becomes a cow of plenty for him in yonder
world.
Ninth Brahmaa^a.
I. When he performs a twelve days' sacrifice with
transposed metres (Dvada^aha vyd^/^a/J'/^andas),
then he (the Adhvaryu) transposes the grahas (cups
of Soma) ; and both the Udgatr^ and the Hotrz
transpose the metres. Now there is first that normal
Tryaha (triduum), with settled metres ^ : there he
draws the cup beginning with the Aindravayava.
he is to give ten to ten such ; and if he intends to give two to each, he is to give ten to five such. Professor Weber, Ind. Stud. X, 52, remarks that this paragraph is not clear to him, and suggests that it may be interpolated. It does not appear, what the exact proportion of the thousand cows is for each of the sixteen priests ; but we may assume that it did not differ much from that given at the Agni- sh/oma (see p. 345, note), and that this result was brought about by repeated distributions among varied groupings of the priests.
^ That is, three days, on which the order of the Agnish/oma is
observed. Hence, having drawn the \Jpa.?nsu and Antaryama
cups (IV, I, I and 2), which must always be drawn first, he draws
the Aindravayava cup (IV, i, 3) and so on. The same order is
preserved on the fifth, eighth, and last three days. On the fourth
and ninth days, on the other hand, he follows up the Upawju and
Antaryama by the grahas of the third pressing, beginning with the
Agrayawa (IV, 3, 5, 21 seq.) ; these being then succeeded by
those of the morning and midday pressings ; and on the si^vth and
seventh days the Upamsu and Antaryama cups are succeeded by
the grahas of the midday pressing, beginning with the 5ukra cup
(IV, 3, 3, 2). This change of the proper order of performance, of
course, involves a different arrangement of the stotras and jastras
(or ' the metres,' as they are called in the texts). This dislocation
of the three pressings is afterwards to be rectified by the various
cups being * deposited ' on the khara in their normal order. In tlie
last two paragraphs of the present Brahmawa the author, however.
IV KAA^DA, 5 ADHYAYA, 9 BRAHMAiVA, 5. 419
2. Then, on the fourth day, he transposes the
grahas, and they transpose the metres. There he
draws the cups beginning with the Agraya?^a, — for
that fourth day is Pra^apati's own ; and the Agraya;^a
is the self, and Pra^apati is the self: therefore he
draws the cups beginning with the Agraya;^a.
3. Having drawn that (Agraya/^a) cup, he does not
deposit it — the grahas being the vital airs — lest he
should disorder the vital airs ^ ; for he would indeed
disorder the vital airs, were he to deposit it. They
sit near holding that (cup) ^ ; and (the Adhvaryu)
draws (the other) cups ; and while he draws the
cups, then whenever the time of that cup (in the
order of performance comes), he utters ' W'wi' and
deposits it. Then follows that normal ^ fifth day ;
on that he draws the cups beginning with the
Aindravayava.
4. Thereupon, on the sixth day, he transposes the
grahas, and they transpose the metres. There he
draws the cups beginning with the 6'ukra; for that
sixth day is Indra's own, and the ^'ukra (bright, clear)
is he that burns yonder, and he (the sun) indeed is
Indra : therefore he draws the cups beginning with
the ^'ukra.
5. Having drawn that (cup), he does not deposit
it — the grahas being the vital airs — lest he should
disorder the vital airs ; for he would indeed disorder
the vital airs, were he to deposit it. They sit near
discountenances this practice of changing the natural order of drawing the cups.
1 For this construction see p. 15, note 3.
^ ' Having given it to some one else (to hold), he draws the other cups.' Kawva text.
3 Or, that 'known' fifth day, i.e. performed in the manner known, or explained before (viz. at the Agnish/oma).
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holding that (cup) ; and he draws (the other) cups ;
and while he draws the cups, then whenever the
time of that (cup comes), he deposits it.
6. Then, on the seventh day, he transposes the
grahas, and they transpose the metres. There he
draws the cups beginning with the ^ukra cup ; for
that seventh day belongs to the Br/hati ('great'
metre) ; for the ^S^ukra is he that burns yonder, and
he indeed is great : therefore he draws the cups
beginning with the ^'ukra.
7. Having drawn that (cup), he does not deposit
it — the grahas being the vital airs — lest he should
disorder the vital airs ; for he would indeed disorder
the vital airs, were he to deposit it. They sit near
holding that (cup) ; and he draws the (other) cups ;
and while he draws the cups, then whenever the
time of that (cup comes), he deposits it. Then
follows that normal eighth day : there he draws the
cups beginning with the Aindravayava.
8. Then, on the ninth day, he transposes the
grahas, and they transpose the metres. There he
draws the cups beginning with the Agraya/^a ; for
that ninth day belongs to the Cagati (metre), and
the Agraya?/a is the self, and the self (soul) is this
whole world (^agat) : therefore he draws the cups
beginning with the Agraya^^a.
9. Having drawn it, he does not deposit it — the
grahas being the vital airs — lest he should disorder
the vital airs ; for he would indeed disorder the vital
airs, were he to deposit it. They sit near holding
that (cup) ; and he draws the (other) cups ; and
while he draws the cups, when the time of that (cup
comes), he utters ' Him' and deposits it.
10. Now they say, He should not transpose the
IV KANDA, 5 ADHYAYA, lO BRAHMAiVA, 2. 42 1
cups — the cups being the vital airs — lest he should
disorder the vital airs ; for he would indeed disorder
the vital airs, were he to transpose them : therefore
he should not transpose (the cups).
1 1 . But let him, nevertheless, transpose them ; for
the cups are the limbs, and in sleeping one likes to
turn 1 his limbs from one side to the other : therefore
let him nevertheless transpose them.
12. Nevertheless, he should not transpose them —
the cups being the vital airs — lest he should disorder
the vital airs ; for he would indeed disorder the vital
airs, were he to transpose (the cups) : therefore let
him not transpose them.
13. What, then, is the Adhvaryu to do in that
case, when both the Udgatrz and Hotri transpose
(change) the metres^? In that, at the morning
pressing, he draws first the Aindravayava cup ; and
at the midday pressing the 6'ukra cup ; and at the
evening pressing the Agraya/^a cup, — thereby for-
sooth the Adhvaryu transposes (the cups).
Tenth BRAHMAiVA^
1, If the Soma is carried off, let him say, 'Run
about and seek!' If they find it, why should they
care ? But if they do not find it, atonement is made
therefore.
2. Now there are two kinds of Phalguna plants,
' In the text our subordinate clause is, as usual, the principal clause : ' one sleeps in turning his limbs from one side to the other.'
2 The chanters and the Hotr/ in any case use different metres, as the principal ones, at different pressings.
3 In the Ka«va text I have met with nothing corresponding to this Brahmawa.
42 2 S-ATAPATHA-BRAHMAiVA.
the red-flowering and the brown-flowering. Those
Phalguna plants which have brown flowers one may
press ; for they, the brown-flowering Phalgunas, are
akin to the Soma-plant : therefore he may press those
with brown flowers.
3. If they cannot get brown-flowering (Phalgunas),
he may press the 6"yenahr/ta^ plant. For when
Gayatri flew up for Soma, a sprig of Soma fell from
her, as she was bringing him : it became the ^'yena-
hrzta. plant : therefore he may press the ^Syenahr/ta
plant.
4. If they cannot get the Syenahrita, he may press Adara plants. For when the head of the sacrifice
was cut off, then Adara plants sprung from the sap
which spirted from it : therefore he may press Adara
plants.
5. If they cannot get Adaras, he may press brown
Dub (durva) plants, for they, the brown Dub plants,
are akin to the Soma : therefore he may press brown
Dub plants.
6. If they cannot get brown Dub plants, he may
also press any kind of yellow Kusa. plants. In that
case let him also give one cow ; and, when he comes
out of the purificatory bath, let him again become
consecrated, for the atonement for that (use of plants
other than Soma) is a second sacrifice. So much then
as to those robbed of their Soma.
7. Now as to those who burst their Soma-trough
(kala^a). If the trough bursts, let him say, ' Try to
catch it ! ' If they catch a handful or a goupenful - (of
Soma), let them perform, as far as is in their power -^
^ That is, the plant ' carried away by the falcon (or eagle).' ^ Scotch for the measure of both hands placed side by side ; Ags. geap, Low Germ, gopse.
^ Yathaprabhavam : Katy. XXV, 12, 24 seems to take it in the
Iv Kaa^Da, 6 Adhyaya, I Brahmaaa, I. 423
after pouring (water) to it from other ekadhana
pitchers. But if they do not catch any, let them
perform, as far as is in their power, after pouring out
some of the Agraya;2a and pouring (water) thereto
from other ekadhana pitchers. And if the trough
bursts before the dakshi;^a (cows) have been led up,
let him then give one cow ; and after coming out from
the purificatory bath, let him be consecrated again ; for
the atonement for that (mishap) is a second sacrifice.
So much then as to those who burst the trough.
8, Then as to those by whom any Soma is left over.
If any (Soma) be left after the Agnish/oma, let him
draw the Ukthya cup from the Putabhr/t. If any
be left after the Ukthya, let him undertake the
Sho^aj^in. If any be left after the Sho^a-s-in, let
them undertake a night (performance) ^ If any be
left after the night (performance), let them undertake
a day (performance) ^. But nothing, surely, remains
after that^
Sixth Adhyaya. First Brahmajva.
I. Now, the Amsu (graha), forsooth, is no other than Pra^apati : that (cup) is his (Ya^;}a's or the
sense of ' abundantly,' as he circumscribes it by ' prabhavayanta/z ' (which the commentator explains by ' distributing over the several vessels').
^ That is, he is to perform an Atiratra, see p. 397, note 2.
2 Katy. XXV, 13, 12-14, ii^ that emergency, prescribes cither the Brz'hat-saman (by which a seventeenth stotra is obtained at the Va^apeya sacrifice, for which see more in Ka«^/a V), or the Mahavrata (see IV, 6, 4, i, with note), or the Aptoryama (see p. 398, note).
^ The meaning of this seems to be, that after the Aptoryama, no other sacrifice remains at which he could dispose of any Soma that might be left (and hence one must finish it at that sacrifice). According to Katy. ib. 15, he is to repeat the Aptoryama, if any Soma remains after the first performance.
424 ^ATAPATIIA-BRAHMAiVA.
Sacrificer's) self', for Pra^apatl is the self. Hence
when they draw that (cup) they produce that self of his.
Therein they lay these vital airs, according to as these
vital airs, the grahas, are explained^; and verily the
sacrificer is born with his whole body in yonder world.
2. Where they draw that (cup), then that is (like)
having a hold ^ ; and where they do not draw it, then
that is (like) having no hold : therefore, then, he
draws the Amsw.
3. He draws it with a vessel of urt^'umbara wood ;
for that (cup) is Pra^apati, and the urtfumbara tree is
Pra^apati's own : therefore he draws it with a vessel
of u^'umbara wood.
4. He draws it with a square vessel ; for there are
here three worlds : these three worlds he obtains by
three (corners). And Pra^apati is the fourth over
and above these three worlds : thus he obtains Pra^a-
pati by the fourth (corner) : therefore he draws it
with a square vessel.
5. Silently he takes up the pressing-stone ; silently
he throws down the Soma-plants [^iitsu) ; silently he
pours water thereon ; silently raising (the stone), he
