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Aitareya Aranyaka. I, 4, 2

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"The Upanishads, Part 1 (sbe01)\", by Max Mller, [1879],

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Second Kha
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1. Next follows the right wing. It is this world (the earth), it is this Agni, it is speech, it is the Rathantara 1, it is Vasish"th"a, it is a hundred 2. These are the six powers (of the right wing) 3. The Sampta hymn (Rv. IV, 20) serves indeed for obtaining desires and for firmness. The Pakti verse (Rv. I, 80, 1) serves for proper food.

2.
Next comes the Sdadohas verse. Sdadohas is breath, thereby he joins all joints with breath.

3.
Next follows the left wing. It is that world (heaven), it is that sun, it is mind, it is the Brihat, it

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a, it is a hundred 1. These are the six powers (of the left wing). The Sampta hymn (Rv. IV, 23) serves indeed for obtaining desires and for firmness. The Pakti verse (Rv. I, 81, 1) serves for proper food.

4.
These two (the right and the left wings) are deficient and excessive 2. The Brihat (the left wing) is man, the Rathantara (the right wing) is woman. The excess belongs to the man, the deficiency to the woman. Therefore they are deficient and excessive.

5.
Now the left wing of a bird is verily by one feather better, therefore the left wing is larger by one verse.

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6.
Next comes the Sdadohas verse. Sdadohas is breath, and thereby he joins all joints with breath.

7.
Next follows the tail. They are twenty-one Dvipad verses 1. For there are twenty-one backward feathers in a bird.

8.
Then the Ekavi"m"sa is the support of all Stomas, and the tail the support of all birds 2.

9.
He recites a twenty-second verse. This is made the form of two supports. Therefore all birds support themselves on their tail, and having supported themselves on their tail, they fly up. For the tail is a support.

10.
He (the bird and the hymn) is supported by two decades which are Vir"g". The man (the sacrificer) is supported by the two Dvipads, the twenty first and twenty-second. That which forms the bird serves for the attainment of all desires; that which forms the man, serves for his happiness, glory, proper food, and honour.

11.
Next comes a Sdadohas verse, then a Dhayy, then a Sdadohas verse. The Sdadohas is a man, the Dhayy a woman, therefore he recites the Dhayy as embraced on both sides by the Sdadohas. Therefore does the seed of both, when it is effused, obtain oneness, and this with regard to the

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woman only. Hence birth takes place in and from the woman. Therefore he recites that Dhayy in that place 1.

Footnotes

189:1
Rathantara is the name of the whole number of hymns to be recited at this part of the sacrifice. It was made by Vasish"th"a, and consists of one hundred verses.

189:2

1.
Stotriya, abhi tv "s"ra nonuma"h" (Rv. Vii, 32, 22)

2 (3)

2.
Anurpa, abhi tv prvaptaye (Rv. Viii, 3, 7)

2 (3)

3.
Indrasya nu (Rv. I, 32)

15

4.
Tve ha (Rv. Vii, 18, 1-15)

15

5.
Yas tigma (Rv. Vii. 19)

11

6.
Ugro "g"a"g"e (Rv. Vii, 20)

10

7.
Ud u (Rv. Vii, 23)

6

8.
te maha"h" (Rv. Vii, 25)

6

9.
Na soma"h" (Rv. Vii, 26)

5

10.
Indra"m" nara"h" (Rv. Vii, 27)

5

11.
Brahm na"h" (Rv. Vii, 28)

5

12.
Aya"m" soma"h" (Rv. Vii, 29)

5

13.
na indra"h" (Rv. Iv, 20)

11

98 (100)

14.
Itth hi (Rv. I, 80, 1)

1

99 (101)

These hymns and verses are given Ait. r. V, 2, 2, 1. Here we also learn that hymn Rv. IV, 20, is called Sampta, and that the last verse is a Pakti.

189:3
The six powers are earth, Agni, speech, Rathantara, Vasish"th"a, and a hundred.

190:1
The hundred verses are given Ait. r. V, 2, 2, 5.

1.
Stotriya, tv"m" id dhi (Rv. Vi, 46, 1)

2 (3)

2.
Anurpa, tvam hy ehi (Rv. Viii, 61, 7)

2 (3)

3.
Tam u sh"t"uhi (Rv. Vi, 18)

15

4.
Suta it tvam (Rv. Vi, 23)

10

5. V
\"ri"sh mada"h" (Rv. Vi, 24)

10

6. Y
ta ti"h" (Rv. Vi, 25)

9

7.
Abhr eka"h" (Rv. Vi, 31)

5

8.
Aprvy (Rv. Vi, 32)

5

9.
Ya ogish"th"a"h" (Rv. Vi, 33)

5

10.
Sa"m k"a tve (Rv. Vi, 34)

5

11.
Kad bhuvan (Rv. Vi, 35)

5

12.
Satr madsa"h" (Rv. Vi, 36)

5

13.
Arvg ratham (Rv. Vi, 37)

5

14.
Apd (Rv. Vi, 38)

5

15.
Kath mahn (Rv. Iv, 23)

1

99 (101)

16.
Indro madya (Rv. I, 81, 1)

1

100 (102)

Though there are said to be 100 verses before the Pakti (No. 16), I can get only 99 or 101. See the following note.

190:2
The right wing, is deficient by one verse, the left wing exceeds by one verse. I count 99 or 101 verses in the right, and 100 or 102 in the left wing.

191:1
These verses are given Ait. r. V, 2, 2, 9.

1.
Im nu kam (Rv. X, 157)

5

2.
yhi (Rv. X, 172)

4

3.
Pra va indrya &c. (not in the "S"kalya-sa"m"hit)

9

4.
Esha brahm &c. (not in the "S"kalya-sa"m"hit)

3

21

191:2
The other Stomas of the Agnish"t"oma are the Triv"ri"t, Pa"k"ada"s"a, Saptada"s"a, the Ekavi"m"s"a being the highest. Cf. I, 5, 1, 3.
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