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THE BRAHMAṆA OF TWENTY FIVE CHAPTERS.
contained in the viṣtutis which have been described in Chapter II of the Brähmana,
these being considered as normal and prakṛti (?) ); the visṭāva, which consists of
one verse only, is called the paricarā. In the first round we have: tṛcabhāga,
avāpasthāna, paricarā; in the second: paricarā, tṛcabhāga, āvāpasthāna; in the
third: āvāpasthāna, paricarā, tṛcabhāga. The paricarã (-Sacrificer) and the
āvāpasthāna (=cattle) are found in each round, and so it can be said yajamānam eva
tat paśuṣu pratiṣṭhāpayati. (Is this the right interpretation? cp. also Lāṭy.
VI. 5. 1. sqq.).
III. 2.
:
1. For seven (verses) he makes him he (chants) three (verses:
thrice the first verse), then three (thrice the second), then one (the
third); for nine (verses) he makes him he (chants) one (verse: the first),
then three (thrice the second), then five (five times the third); for eleven
(verses) he makes him he (chants) five (verses: five times the first
verse), then three (thrice the second verse), then three (thrice the third
verse)¹. (This is) the ascending vistuti belonging to the thrice-nine-
versed (chant).
1 Schema hum 1. 1. 1. 2. 2. 2. 3; hum 1. 2. 2. 2. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3; hum 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 2.
2. 2. 3. 3. 3.
2. By means of this (vistuti) the Gods went to the world of heaven ;
one who wishes for the world of heaven should in chanting practise it,
so as to reach the world of heaven: having practised it, he does not fall
from the world of heaven. It is the stepping-on' viṣṭuti, (used) in
order to step on (his adversaries), for by that (form) of the sacrifice
which steps on, he prospers.
Therefore this (visṭuti) is in chanting to
be practised for prospering.
III. 3.
1. For eleven (verses) he makes him he (chants) three (verses:
thrice the first verse), then seven (seven times the second verse), then one
(the third); for eleven (verses) he makes him he (chants) one (verse:
the first), then three (thrice the second verse), then seven (seven times
the third verse); for eleven (verses) he makes him he (chants) seven
(verses seven times the first verse), then one (the second), then three
(thrice the third verse) ¹.
1 Schema hum 1. 1. 1. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. 3; hum 1. 2. 2. 2. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3;
hum 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 2. 3. 3. 3.
2. The thirty-three-versed (chant) is the end, the thirty-three-
versed one forsooth is the highest of the chants. Fixed by seven (verses) 2