170 H. Oertel, 



Notes. 



208. 1-2 correspond to AB. iv. 5. 3 (= GB. ii. 5. 1), TMB. ix. 1. 3. 



2. parya3anam : ' There are man}- difterent stomas, or forms of 

 chanting stotras . . . All these stomas . . . have two or more dif- 

 ferent varieties or arrangements, called vistuti, differing from one 

 another either in the order in which the several verses are to be 

 chanted or in regard to the number of repetitions which the corre- 

 sponding verses have to undergo. Besides stomas are generally 

 performed in three turns or rounds, par3'aya, consisting of a triplet 

 of verses (some of which may have to be repeated more than 

 once) ' Eggeling, SBE., vol. xxvi, p. 308, note 2 ; cf. also Caland 

 and Henry, UAgmsioma, 1, 1906, pp. xxxv, 159 (no. 129) and 237 

 (no, 155). — For the paryayas in connection with the atiratra-sacri- 

 fice see Eggeling SBE., vol. xli, pp. xvii f., 12 note 5, Hillebrandt, 

 Ritiiallitteratur, p. 138 § 71. 



208. 3-5 correspond to KB. xvii. 8, TMB. ix. 1. 4-5, 16, 19, 

 AB. iv. 5. 4 (= GB. ii. 5. 2) and, with further elaborations, AB. iv. 

 6. 4-6. 



208. 6. corresponds, more or less closely, to KB. xvii. 8, TMB. 

 ix. 1. 22, AB. iv. 6. 7. 



209. 1. The parallel passage AB. iv. 5. 5 (= GB. ii. 5. 1) has 

 a similar punning etymology with Yas -f anu and api. 



2. sahdhim : ' The distinctive feature of the Atiratra-sacrilace . . . 

 is an ' overnight ' performance of chants and recitations, consisting 

 of three rounds fparyaya] of four stotras and yastras each . . . The 

 twelve stotras, each of which is chanted to a different tune, are 

 followed up at daybreak, by the Sandhi-stotra, or twilight-chant, 

 consisting of six verses (Sama-veda S. ii. 99-104) chanted to the 

 Rathantara tune ' (Eggeling, SBE. vol. xli, p. xvii f.). ' Each of 

 the three couplets is, as usual, sung as a triplet, the three thus 

 producing the nine verses of the Trivrt-stoma. The Rathantara 

 tune, to which the couplets are to be sung, is given in the Uhya- 

 gana (Samaveda, vol. v, p. 381) but with different verses, viz. 

 Sama-veda i. 30, 31 (abhi tva yura nonumo), the verses most com- 

 monly sung to that famovis tune. The chanters' manuals of the 

 Atiratra (e. g. Ind. Off. MS. 1748) accordingly adapt the tune to 

 the verses here required (ena vo agniih namaso) ' (Eggeling, SBE., 

 vol. xli, p. 127 note 1). Cf. also Haug in his translation of AB.. 

 vol. ii, p. 266 f., note 19. 



2. rathaihtaram sahdhim : AB. iv. 6. 1 ff". 



