198 H. Oertcl, 



vamadevyai as saman, the All Gods as divinit}-, the Vaicya as human 

 being, the cow as animal ; therefore the Vaifya has the jagati as 

 [his] metre, [and] belongs to the All Gods as far as [his] divinity 

 [is concerned] : and therefore he is procreative, for he (Prajapati) 

 created him from [his] generative organ. 2. He desired : ' May I be 

 propagated.' From [his] two feet, from [his] footing, he created the 

 twenty-one-fold one 2 as stoma, the anustulDh as metre, the yajiia- 

 yajniyaS as saman, no di\'inity whatever, the Cudra as human being, 

 the sheep as animal ; therefore the Q'udra has the anustubh as [his] 

 metre, [and] the master of [his| dwelling as [his] god; and therefore 

 he desires to live b}^ washing [other people's] feet only, for he 

 (Prajapati) created him from [his] two feet, from [his] footing. 3. By 

 means of this creation Prajapati created creatures. He who knows 

 this thus attains manifoldness through offspring [and] cattle. And 

 therefore they praise this sacrifice as the mightiest, to wit, the agni- 

 stoma, for it is Prajapati's sacrifice. 



8. Notes. 



The principal correspondences and divergencies of TS., TMB., and 

 JB., may bee seen from the following table fp. 199). (On the whole, 

 in the seqv;ence of items the JB. corresponds more closely to the 

 TMB., while in the items themselves it is more similar to TS.) 



Similar combinations are not infrequent elsewhere.* Thus, AV. 

 viii. 9. 20 fa brahmodya) asks : kathaih gaj'atrl trivrtam vyapa ka- 

 thaiii tristup paiicadacena kalpate trayastrin9ena jagati katham anu- 

 stup katham ekavingah, 'How did the ga3^atri permeate the three- 

 fold [stoma]? How does the tristubh fit in with the fifteenfold 

 [stoma] ? How the jagati with the thirty-three-fold [stoma] ? How is 

 the anustubh connected with the twenty-one-fold [stoma] ' ? In a 

 group of parallel passages, consisting of TS. i. 8. 13. 1—2 (quoted 

 at TB. i. 7. 7. 1-2), VS. x. 10-13 (quoted at gB. v. 4. 1. 3-6), 

 MS. ii. 6. 10 (p. 69, 13) and Kath. xv. 7 (p. 214, 6), the kindling stick 

 (samidh) [TS., MS., Kath.] or the East [VS.] is linked with the gayatrl, 

 the trivrt-stoma, the rathaihtara-saman, Agni [TS., MS., Kath., but 

 not in VS.], the priestly caste (brahman), and the spring [in VS. 

 only]: the strong one (ugra) [TS. MS. Kath.] or the South [VS.] with 



1 SV. ii. 32-34. 



* Eggeling, SBE.. xxvi. p. 491, note 3 gives the arrangement of a 

 tri])let so as to yield 21 verses (a a a-b b b-c ; a-b b b-c c e ; a a a-b-t- c c). 

 » SV. ii. 53-54. * See above, no. ii, JB. i. 211. 3, p. 172. 



