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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
Anuvâkas (Vâg. S. XXII, 23-34), 'To the inbreathing hail! To the off-breathing hail!' ... (he offers)-twelve months are a year, and the year is everything, and the Asvamedha is everything thus it is for his obtaining and securing everything.
5. The central day is an ekavimsa day'; for the twenty-one-fold is yonder sun, and he is the Asvamedha by means of his own Stoma he thus establishes him in his own deity,-therefore it is an ekavimsa day.
6. And, again, as to why it is an ekavimsa day;man is twenty-one-fold-ten fingers, ten toes, and the body (self) as the twenty-first: by means of that twenty-one-fold self he thus establishes him in the twenty-one-fold (day) as on a firm foundation, -therefore it is an ekavimsa day.
7. And, again, as to why it is an ekavimsa day;— the ekavimsa, assuredly, is the foundation of Stomas, and manifold is that ever-varying performance which takes place on this day, and it is because he thinks that that manifold and ever-varying performance which takes place on this day, shall take place so as to be established on the ekavimsa as a firm foundation, that this is an ekavimsa day.
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8. Now, as to the morning-service of this day. The Hotri, having recited as the Agya (hymn 2) in the Pankti (metre) 'Agni I think on, who is good..., recites thereto the one of a one-day's
1 That is one on which all Stotras are chanted in the 'ekavimsa' Stoma, or twenty-one-versed hymn-form.
Viz. Rig-veda V, 6, forming the special feature of the Âgyasastra
at the Asvamedha.
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| SR No. | 007679 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 03 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Julius Eggeling |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1894 |
| Total Pages | 2382 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 45 MB |