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nayya'.' (^'B. i. G. 4. 6, ' They prepared it (the soma) collecting it 

 successiveh' b}- means of the cows ; as [these] ate plants [the}' 

 collected it] from the plants, as the}' drank water [they collected 

 it] from the water." 



7. With these punning etymologies cf. TS. ii. 5. 3. 3, ' tat prat}'- 

 aduhan . . . }at pratyaduhan tat pratidhusah pratidhuktvam. saman- 

 aisuh prat}adhuksan na tu mayi yrayata ity abravid etad asmai 4. 

 crtaiii kurvite "ty abravit tad asmai 9rtam akurvann indriyaiii vava 

 'smin Yiryaih tad a^rayan tac chrtasya grtatvam. samanaisuh pratya- 

 dhuksan chrtam akran na tu ma dhinoti 'ty abravid etad asmai 

 dadhi kurute 'ty abravit tad asmai dadhy akurvan tad enam adhi- 

 not tad dadhno dadhitvam.' ^B. i. 6. 4. 6, tam evaih sariibhrtya 

 'tacya tlvrlkrtya tasmai prayacchan. 7. so 'bravid dhinoty eva me 

 'daiii ne 'va tu mayi yrayate y'c.the 'dam mayi ^rayatai tatho 'pa- 

 jrmite 'ti. taiii crtenai 'va '^rayan. 8. tad va etat samanam eva sat 

 paya eva sad indriyasyai 'va sat tat punar nane 'va 'caksate yad 

 abravid dhinoti me 'ti tasmad dadhy atha yad enaih crtenai 'va 

 'crayaiis tasmac chrtam. Cf. also TS. vi. 5. 9. 1—2. 



7. The distribution over the three savanas differs in TB. i. 4. 7. 6, 

 (;rtena pratahsavane criniyad dadhna madhyandine 7. nltamicrena^ 

 trtlyasavane. 



8. atitaram : CB. i. 6. 4. 21 refers to the practice of ' some ' of 

 offering the sarimayya to Mahendra rather than to Indra, on the 

 ground that he was Indra before he slew Vrtra, but after he had 

 slain Vrtra he became Mahendra, just as a king (rajan) becomes a 

 great king (maharajan) after he has gained a victory. But the 

 CB. dissents from this : ' Indra he was before the slaying of Vrtra, 

 and Indra he is after slaying Vrtra, therefore let him offer it simply 

 to Indra.' 



8. atitaram: CB. v. 5. 4. 13 sa hai 'taya (viz. the sautramani) 

 somatiputaiii bhisayet . . . sa x'aslyan eve 'stva bhavati. Cf. the 

 somavamina isti, Kath. xi, 1 (p. 143, 11-19), MS. ii. 2. 13 (p. 26, 

 1—8), TS. ii. 3. 2. 6—7 ; Caland, Altindische Zaubcrci (in Verhandel. 

 d. Koninkl. Akademie van Wetensch. tc Amsterdam, Afdeel. Letter- 

 ktmdc, N.R. Deel x, no. i) 1908, p. 102-103. 



* See Hillebrandt. Das altindische A'cit- iivd I'ollmondsopfcr. 1879. p. 4—5. 

 2 = navanlta- 



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