178 H. Ocrtel, 



na kada'^ cana dvadagam atiharati.^ parigrhita hi tena. 3. tasaih 

 parigrhltanani ayvataro 'tyaplavata^ tasya 'nuhaya reta adatta. 4. tad 

 gardabhe nyamart^ tad° vajavayaiii tat pa^usu*^ tad" osadhlsu. tas- 

 mad gardabho dviretas^ tasmad valava^ dviretas^o tasmat pacavo 

 dvau dvau janayanti tasmad osadhayo 'nabhyakta rebhanti.i^ 5. tas- 

 mad acvataro barhisi na deyo'2 "ti^^ hyi-^ aplavata^^ 'pa hyis akra- 

 mad attareta hy apraja hi. sodacinasi'^ stotre deyo 'tirikto vai so- 

 da^li' stotranam atirikto 'gvatara pacunam. atirikta eva tad ati- 

 riktarfi dadhati yajilasya^s salomatayai. 6. sa^^ ya evam vidvan 

 agnistomeno '-'^ 'dgayati^i pra"-^ 'jatah praja janayati paries prajata^* 

 grhnati. 7. jyesthayajiio va esa prajapatiyajiio 3'ad agnistomo 'cnute-^ 

 jyaisthyam26 ^raisthyarii 27 ya evaiii veda. 



2. Translation. 



1. When Prajapati created the creatures he created them with 

 the agnistoma. Both with the tenth stotra of the agnistoma he 

 created them and with the tenth month of the year. Both with 

 the twelfth stotra of the agnistoma and with the twelfth month of 

 the year he enclosed them. 2. Therefore animals carry their foetuses 

 ten months, about the eleventh month they give birth [to it] ; never 

 does one hold it beyond the twelfth month, for by that the}' were 

 enclosed. 3. Of them being enclosed the he-mule escaped. [Pur- 

 suing and] catching him he took his seed away. 4. He transferred 

 it to the he-ass, to the mare, to the [other] animals, to the plants. 

 Therefore the he-ass has two [kinds of] seed, therefore the mare has 

 two [kinds of] seed, therefore the animals severally give birth to twins, 

 therefore the plants, [though] unanointed, shine. 5. Therefore a he- 

 mule is not to be given [as a sacrihcial fee] in the barhis,28 for he 

 escaped, for he ran away, for he had its seed taken away, for he is 

 without offspring. [But] in the case of the stotra of the sodagin 



1 B.C. ka - A. ath-ahati. 



^ A. "tiplavati, B. atyaplavata, C. atyapravata (as TS. reads). 

 * All mss. -tta ^ A. sa, B. cat " A. pa isii ^ A. sad 



« A. -ta, B.C. -OS " A. vil- »" A. dluretas 



^* A. robhavanti, B.C. rebliavauti, corrected after TS. i. 7. 1. 2. MS. i. 

 8. 2 (p. 117, 8), Kath. vi. 2 (p. .51, 5) ^^ C. deliebhyah 



■* C. 0111. ^* C. pravatii »^ A. cy i" A. sodeg-nina 



^' All mss. -i 1^ A. yasya '" A. om. -" A. -stomauno 



-* A. jaga- -'- B.C. pra -^ A. om. -* A. praja 



25 A. ^atrute, B.C. crute ^f, a. j;ii- -' B.C. -stliam. 



2* That is ' in the case of an ordinary sacrifice.' 



