Monvern Imiratyon or THE Vipas, &c Al 
hita or Taitiriya-Sadchd. But in fact, those terms ‘are in their erigia 
very different and properly describe very different things. 
Tur term Sdchd, literally means @ branch, and is applied to the 
several branches of the same eriginal, wherein,.as in our editions of 
books, any new matter is introduced; for example the Adhénam, or 
rites observed in placing the sacrificial fires previously to the performance 
of any sacrifice, are stated in the Paracya-Stiché of the Crishiia Yejush, 
and not in the Taitiriya-Sde hu’, the former containing besides many 
particulars in which the latter is deficient. Or a Sichd, is a separate 
tract relating to some particular rite; thus in the Sdéchés of this Véda, 
the Aswamédha-Sdché contains the ceremonies to be used ata sacrifice 
of a horses the Catha-Sdehd, those called Chayanam, performed, when 
the hearths are prepared for the sacrificial fires by paving them with 
limeestones; and the Aranya-Sdc hd, those prescribed for the Aruna- 
cétucam, wherein smail earthen pots are used instead of lime-stoness 
it contains; also, the rules for teaching the Véda-aud to it is appended 
all the Upanishats, appertaining to the Cri?siutus Yejush, which collectively 
constitute the Uitara-césidam of this Véda, 
Suunriri (the past participle derived from Sandhd the dh being liere 
changed by special rule for h before the formative affix Clapratyeyamn, ) 
Binifies literally conjucaed, and is applied technically to the arrangement 
of the text of the Vda, into short sentences, regulated, when the style 
is verse, by the species of verse, and when prose, by the subject.—Now 
whether the same portion of the /éda has been differently arranged by 
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