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1. He draws the 础峁兣泆^[1] (graha), just for completeness鈥� sake, for it is therefor that he draws the 础峁兣泆. After that he draws those recognised 础驳苍颈峁ａ弓辞尘补 cups^[2] up to the 膧驳谤补测补峁嘺.

2, He then draws the P峁涐梗峁環yas^[3]: and whatever the gods (Agni, Indra, and 厂奴谤测补) won by them, even that he wins by them.

3. He then draws the 峁�o岣峚艣in: and whatever Indra won thereby, even that he (the sacrificer) wins thereby.

4. He then draws those five 痴腻箩补辫别测补 cups (for Indra; the first) with the text (V. S. IX, 2), 'Thee, the firm-seated, the man-seated, the mind-seated! Thou art taken with a support^[4]: I take thee, agreeable to Indra! This is thy womb' (i.e. thy home): thee, most agreeable to Indra!' therewith he deposits it; for of these worlds this one, to wit the earth, is the firm one: this same world he thereby wins.

5. [The second with,] 'Thee, the water-seated, the ghee-seated, the ether-seated! Thou art taken with a support: I take thee, agreeable to Indra! This is thy womb: thee most agreeable to Indra!' therewith he deposits it; for among these worlds that ether (mentioned in the formula) is this air: he thereby wins this air-world.

6. [The third with,] 'Thee, the earth-seated, the air-seated, the sky-seated, the god-seated, the heaven-seated! Thou art taken with a support: I take thee, agreeable to Indra! This is thy womb: thee, most agreeable to Indra!' therewith he deposits it; for god-seated, heaven-seated indeed is yonder world of the gods: the world of the gods he thereby wins.

7. [The fourth with V. S. IX, 3,] 'The waters鈥� invigorating essence, being contained in the sun,--that which is the essence of the waters鈥� essence, that, the most excellent, I take for you! Thou art taken with a support: I take thee, agreeable to Indra! This is thy womb: thee, most agreeable to Indra!' therewith he deposits it; for the waters鈥� essence is he that blows (or purifies) yonder (the wind), and he is contained in the sun, he blows from the sun: that same essence he thereby wins.

8. [The fifth with IX, 4,] 'Ye cups, of strengthening libations, inspiring the sage with thought,--I have gathered together the pith and sap of you, the handleless! Thou art taken with a support: thee, agreeable to Indra! This is thy womb: thee, most agreeable to

Indra!' therewith he deposits it;--pith means essence: it is the essence he thereby wins.

9. These, then, are five 痴腻箩补辫别测补 cups he draws; for he who offers the 痴腻箩补辫别测补 wins 笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈; and 笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈 is the year, and there are five seasons in the year,--he thus wins 笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈: therefore he draws five 痴腻箩补辫别测补 cups.

10. He (the Adhvaryu) then draws seventeen (other) cups of Soma, and (the Ne峁ａ弓峁�) seventeen cups of 厂耻谤腻 (spirituous liquor), for to 笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈 belong these two (saps of) plants, to wit the Soma and the 厂耻谤腻;--and of these two the Soma is truth, prosperity, light; and the 厂耻谤腻 untruth, misery, darkness: both these (saps of) plants he thereby wins; for he who offers the 痴腻箩补辫别测补 wins everything here, since he wins 笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈, and 笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈 indeed is everything here.

11. Now as to why he draws seventeen cups of Soma;--笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈 is seventeenfold, 笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈 is the sacrifice^[5]: as great as the sacrifice is, as great as is its measure, with that much he thus wins its truth, its prosperity, its light.

12. And why he draws seventeen cups of 厂耻谤腻;--笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈 is seventeenfold, 笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈 is the sacrifice: as great as the sacrifice is, as great as is its measure, with that much he thus wins its untruth, its misery, its darkness.

13. These two amount to thirty-four cups; for there are thirty-three gods, and 笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈 is the thirty-fourth: he thus wins 笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈.

14. Now when he buys the king (Soma), he at the same time buys for a piece of lead the Parisrut (immature spirituous liquor) from a long-haired man near by towards the south. For a long-haired man is neither man nor woman; for, being a male, he is not a woman; and being long-haired (a eunuch), he is not a man. And that lead is neither iron nor gold; and the Parisrut-liquor is neither Soma nor 厂耻谤腻^[6]: this is why he buys the Parisrut for a piece of lead from a long-haired man.

15. And on the preceding day they prepare two earth-mounds^[7], the one in front of the axle, and the other behind the axle: 'Lest we should deposit together the cups of Soma, and the cups of 厂耻谤腻,'--this is why, on the preceding day, they prepare two mounds, one in front, and the other behind the axle.

16. Now, when they take the Vasat墨var墨 water^[8] (into the 丑补惫颈谤诲丑腻苍补 shed) by the front door, the Ne峁ａ弓峁� takes in the Parisrut-liquor by the back door. From the south they bring in the drinking vessels. The Adhvaryu, seated in front of the axle, with his face towards the west, draws the cups of Soma; and the Ne峁ａ弓峁�, seated behind the axle, with his face towards the east, draws the cups of 厂耻谤腻. The Adhvaryu draws a cup of Soma, the Ne峁ａ弓峁� a cup of 厂耻谤腻; the Adhvaryu draws a cup of Soma, the Ne峁ａ弓峁� a cup of 厂耻谤腻: in this way they draw them alternately.

17. Neither does the Adhvaryu hold the Soma-cup beyond the axle towards the back, nor the Ne峁ａ弓峁� the 厂耻谤腻-cup beyond the axle towards the front, thinking, 'Lest we should confound light and darkness!'

18. The Adhvaryu holds the Soma-cup just over the axle, and the Ne峁ａ弓峁� the 厂耻谤腻-cup just below the axle, with (V. S. IX, 4), 'United ye are: unite me with happiness!' Thinking, 'Lest we should say "evil",' they withdraw them again, with, 'Disunited ye are: disunite me from evil!' Even as one might tear a single reed from a clump of reed-grass, so do they thereby tear him from out of all evil: there is not in him so much sin as the point of a grass-blade. They deposit the two (cups each time on the mounds).

19. Thereupon the Adhvaryu draws the Madhu-graha (honey-cup) in a golden vessel, and deposits it in the middle of the Soma-grahas. He then draws the Ukthya, then the Dhruva. And when, at the last chant (of the evening press feast^[9]), he has poured those Soma-grahas one by one into the cups of the officiating priests, they make offering and drink them. At the midday-pressing it is told regarding the honey-cup, and the cups of 厂耻谤腻: thereof then^[10].

Footnotes and references:

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[1]:

Regarding this cup, or libation (consisting, it would seem, of imperfectly pressed Soma-plants in water), see part ii, p. 424, note 1. Here, and in the sequel, the author only refers to those points of ceremonial in which the performance differs from that of the ordinary 础驳苍颈峁ａ弓辞尘补 sacrifice, as described in part ii.

[2]:

Viz. the Up膩峁兣泆 and Antary膩ma; the Aindrav膩yava, Maitr膩varu峁嘺 and 膧艣vina; the 艢ukra and Manthin; and the 膧驳谤补测补峁嘺. Part ii, pp. 256 seq.

[3]:

That is, the three Atigr膩hyas (part ii, p. 402, note 2), required for the P峁涐梗峁環a-stotras at the midday feast, when performed in their proper 'p峁涐梗峁環a' form, as they are at the P峁涐梗峁環ya 峁�a岣峚ha, and at a Vi艣vajit-ek膩ha with all the P峁涐梗峁環as. See IV, 5, 4, 24. The authorities of the Black Yajus adopt a somewhat different arrangement. The 痴腻箩补辫别测补 cups are likewise called by them Atigr膩hyas (Taitt. S. I, 7, 22; T. B. I, 3, 9), and these are apparently drawn by them immediately after the second of the ordinary three Atigr膩hyas, the one belonging to Indra (T. S. vol. i, p. 996,--but see ib. p. 1955, where it is stated that they are drawn immediately after the 膧驳谤补测补峁嘺,--that is, probably, if the ordinary Atigr膩hyas are not required). Then follows (the third ordinary Atigr膩hya?), then the 峁�o岣峚艣in, and thereupon the seventeen cups for 笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈.--S膩ya峁嘺 remarks on our passage,--te峁Ｄ乵 (atigr膩hy膩峁嚹乵) prak峁泃igat膩 tritvasa峁僰hyaiva 艣膩kh膩ntaravat sa峁僰hy膩ntar膩nupade艣膩t. MS. I. O. 657.

[4]:

For an explanation of these notions, see part ii, p. 260, notes 1 and 2.

[5]:

See I, 5, 2, 17, where the principal formulas used in making oblations are computed as consisting together of seventeen syllables. Pa帽c. Br. 18, 6 insists especially on the symbolic identity of 笔谤补箩腻辫补迟颈 and the 痴腻箩补辫别测补 on the double ground that the 痴腻箩补辫别测补 consists of seventeen stotras, and has for its characteristic mode of chanting the Saptada艣a-stoma, or seventeen-versed hymn. That this is indeed so will appear from a glance at the chief chants. The Bahi峁�pavam膩na-stotra, which in the ordinary 础驳苍颈峁ａ弓辞尘补 is chanted in the triv峁泃-stoma, consisting of three triplets, or nine verses (see part ii, p. 310), is at the 痴腻箩补辫别测补 made to consist of seventeen verses, by the insertion of eight verses (S.V. II, 180-82; 186-90) between the second and third triplets. Again, the M膩dhyandina-pavam膩na, ordinarily chanted in fifteen verses (part ii, p. 333), here consists of seventeen, viz. II, 105-7 (sung twice in two tunes = six verses); II, 663 (one verse); II, 663-4 (sung as triplet, in two tunes = six verses); II, 663, in a different tune again (one verse); II, 821-23 p. 9 (three verses)--making together seventeen verses. Similarly, the 膧rbhava-pavam膩na (chanted at the 础驳苍颈峁ａ弓辞尘补 also in the Saptada艣a-stoma, cf. part ii, p. 315; but here with modifications) consists of II, 165-7 (sung twice in two tunes = six verses); II, 42, 44 (two verses); II, 47-9 (in two tunes = six verses); II, 720-22 (three verses)--making together seventeen verses. For the similarly constructed 痴腻箩补辫别测补 hymn see page 11, note 1. See also L膩峁瓂. 艢r. VIII, 11, 15 seq., where the number of officiating priests, as well as that of the various sacrificial fees, is fixed at seventeen. Similarly, 膧艣v. 艢r. IX, 9, 2-3 says that there are either to be seventeen dik峁Ｄ乻, or the whole ceremony is to be performed in seventeen days.

[6]:

According to S膩ya峁嘺, the difference between sur膩 and parisrut would seem to be that the former beverage is prepared from mature shoots (of rice, &c.), and the latter from such as are not quite ripe.

[7]:

The mounds (khara) thrown up in the 丑补惫颈谤诲丑腻苍补 cart-shed, are used for placing the cups of Soma (and 厂耻谤腻) after they are drawn, until they are used for the libations. See the plan of the sacrificial ground at the end of part ii; only that on the present occasion there is to be a second mound, for the placing of the 厂耻谤腻-cups, under or just behind the axle of the southern Soma-cart (in the place where the N膩r膩艣a峁僺a cups to the Fathers were temporarily deposited at the 础驳苍颈峁ａ弓辞尘补; see III, 6, 2, 25 with note). On this occasion a small door is also made in the southern wall of the cart-shed, by breaking through the hurdle.

[8]:

Part ii, p. 222 seq.

[9]:

The last chant (at the evening feast) of the 痴腻箩补辫别测补 sacrifice is the so-called 痴腻箩补辫别测补-s膩man, or B峁沨at-stotra (S膩mav. II, 975-7), chanted, to the B峁沨at tune, in the Saptada艣a-stoma; the three verses being, by repetitions, raised to the number of seventeen.--'When he has poured . . . they offer it:' this is apparently a case of the absolute construction of the gerund in '-ya,' cf. Delbrück, Altindische Syntax, p. 108.

[10]:

On these cups, or libations, see V, I, 5, 28.