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IX KẦNDA, 5 ADHYÂYA, I BRÂHMANA, 47.
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(the same as the beginning. The Svâhâ-call is the ninth of those !, and so it is of these: thus he makes the end as the beginning. The oblation (âhuti) is the tenth of those ?, and so it is of these : thus he makes the end as the beginning. On that occasion he offers the oblation continuously so as not to stop the seed, the sacrifice there being seed;-on this occasion (he offers) with the dipping-spoon at the Svâhâ-call, for manifest is the seed when it is born.
45. [He offers, with, Vâg. S. XVII, 58–65), 'What hath flowed from out of the will, or the heart, or was gathered from the mind, or the eye, after that go ye forward-to the world of the righteous whither the first-born seers went of old!'he thereby means those Rishis 3.
46. 'Unto thee, O (heavenly) seat, I commit this treasure which the knower of beings shall bring thithert! Here the lord of the sacrifice will go after you: acknowledge ye him in the highest heaven!'-as the text, so the meaning.
47. 'Acknowledge him, O ye gods, seated
1 See VI, 3, 1, 21.
· The Såvitra formulas accompany eight libations, which form, however, only one single continuous offering (âhuti) with one svâhâ-call.
* For the seven Rishis, identified with the vital airs, the first existing beings, see VI, 1, 1, 1 seq.
- Mahîdhara (and apparently Sâyana) seems to supply yagamânam' to 'etam,' and construe thus: 'Unto thee, O heavenly sent, I commit this (Sacrificer), which treasure Gâtavedas shall bring thither.'
50 gods, honour ye him (the Sacrificer) l' Mahîdhara; but perhaps the Rashıs are addressed in this second line. Mahîdhara takes 'atra' (here') along with 'parame vyoman'-'in this highest heaven.'
