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3. acvinam : ' This chant [= the SandhistotraJ is succeeded b} 

 the Hotr's recitation of the A9vina-9astra, ^ a modification of the 

 ordinary prataranuvaka , or morning Htany . . . On the present 

 occasion tlie prataranuvaka is, however, to consist of as man}' 

 verses as, counting- their S3'llables, would make up a thousand 

 brhati verses (of thirty-six syllables each). The three sections of 

 the ordinar}' morning litan}- form the body of the A^vina-^astra, 

 which concludes, after sunrise, with verses addressed to Surya, the 

 sun ' (Eggeling, SBE., vol. xli, p. xviii). Cf. also Eggeling, SBE., 

 vol. xliv, p. 92 f., note 2 and Haug's Translation of AB., vol. ii, p. 268, 

 note 1. 



.3. uktham : 'synonyme plus ancien de c^astra,' Caland-Henry, 

 L'Agnisfonia, p. xxvii; cf. also Eggeling, SBE., vol. xli, p. xiv f. 



3. mahati ratre : Cf. KB. xi. 8 (p. 52, 15), acvinam mahad uktham 

 maharatra upakuryat ; AB. ii. 15. 12 detines the phrase by pura 

 cakunivadat. 



3. samarambhaya : I have taken it in the sense of avyavachedaya 

 in AB. i. 11. 7. 



4. anabhyavacaraya : Cf. CB. i. 3. 4. 8, guptyai va abhitah pari- 

 dhayo bhavanty athai 'tat suryam eva purastad goptaraih karoti net 

 purastan nastra raksansy abhyavacaran iti. The p. w. registers 

 {Nachtrcige, I, p. 287, col. 3) anabhyavacaruka at MS. iii. 8. 7 (p. 104, 

 12) but does not give the noun anabhyavacara. 



4. anaparopaya : The Petersburg dictionaries do not record the 

 noun anaparopa. 



4. aparopyate: Cf. AV. v. 17. 7, jagad yac ca 'palupyate. 



210. This chapter belongs with chai:)ter 213 below^ The two 

 correspond to AB. iv. 7-8, cf. also KB. xviii. 1, TMB. ix. 1. 35. 



4. Vstha -\- pari-ud in the sense of "lAstha -f pari. 



4. anu nu ma 'bhajatam. This use of nu with the imperative in 

 the sense of a hypotactical ' unless '-clause is similar to the cases 

 discussed b}' Delbruck, Altind. SynL, § 255, p. 515 ft'. 



4. atyarjata : The same variation between the Vsrj (ati nau srjasva) 

 and Vvj (atyarjata) is found in AB. iii. 42. 1-4 (ati no 'rjasi and 

 na 'stuto 'tisraksj^e). 



6. udajayetam : As all mss. agree on the middle I have hesitated 

 to change the reading to udajayatam. 



211. 2. ratnair nu : A nu or some eqviivalent seems to be demanded 

 here, see Delbruck, Altiiid. Synt., § 255, 1, p. 515. 



3. gayatrlsu: Cf., e. g., ^B. i. 8. 2. 13. 



• TMB. ix. 1. 84. acvinaih liota 'nucaiisati. 



