Coiitribntioiis from the Jaiuihiiya Bnihiuaija. 197 



pratisthava ekavin(;aihi stomam asrjata 'nustubhaih chando 3'ajna- 

 yajnlyaih^ sama na^ kaiii cana* devataihS ^udraiii manusyam a\'im 

 pac^uiii tasmac chudro 'nustupchanda vecmapatidevas tasmad u pad- 

 avanejyenai^ 'va' jijivisati padbhyam hy enarii pratisthaya asrjata. ^ 

 3. etaya vai srstya prajapatih praja asrjata sa ya etad evaiii veda'^ 

 bhumilnam eva prajaya pa^ubhir gacchati tasmad v etaiiii" yajfiaih 

 bhuyisthaih prayansati yad agnistomam prajapatiyajnoi^ hy esah. 



2. Translation. 



68. 1. Verily, Prajapati, in the beginning-, was this [universe], for 

 Prajapati is the divinity of birth. 2. He desired : ' May I be mani- 

 fold, may I be propagated, may I attain manifoldness.' 3. From 

 [hisj head, [his] mouth, he created the threefold one as stoma, ^'' the 

 gayatrl as metre, the rathaihtara ^3 as saman, Agni as divinit}', the 

 Brahmana as human being, the he-goat as animal ; therefore the 

 Brahmana has the gayatrl as [his] metre, [and] belongs to Agni as 

 far as [his] divinity [is concerned] ; and therefore he is the mouth of 

 created beings, for he fPrajapati) created him from [his] mouth. 

 4. He desired : ' May I be propagated.' From his two arms, from 

 [his] chest, he created the fifteen-fold ^^ one as stoma, the tristubh 

 as metre, the brhat^^ as saman, Indra as divinity, the warrior as 

 human being, the horse as animal ; therefore the warrior has the 

 tristulDh as [his] metre, [and] belongs to Indra as far as [his] divinity 

 [is concerned] ; and therefore he performs deeds of valour with [his] 

 two arms, for he fPrajapati) created him from [his] two arms, from 

 [his] chest, from valour. 5. He desired : ' May I be propagated.' 



69. 1. From [his] belly, from the middle [part of his body], he 

 created the seventeenfold-one^*^ as stoma, the jagati as metre, the 



^ B.C. -a - A. yajnayajnayajnij'a ' A. iiu 



* B. cana, A. canu * A. -a •* B. padavagiiejyenai 



" A. ya * All mss. tsrj- '•' A. vedeva 



"» A. edai, B. liita, C. aitani i' A. -e 



*2 On the term stoma in general see the note to JB. i. 211. 1. trans- 

 lation, above p. 168. If executed in the trivrt stoma arrangement the 

 verses of RV. ix. 11 are put in the following order : 1, 4. 7, 2, 5, 8, 3, 6, 9. 



»3 SV. ii. 30-31. 



^* Eggeling, SBE., xxvi, p. 308 note 2 gives the three varieties (vistuti) 

 of arrangement for the paiicada^a-stoma. ^* SV. ii. 159—160. 



16 Eggeling, SBE.. xli, p. 8, note 1 and p. 11, note 1 discusses the 

 uianner in which hymns are adapted to the requirements of the sapta- 

 daca-stoma. 



