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सायण-भाष्यम्

‘यमृत्विजः’ इति तृचात्मकं दशमं सूक्तं काण्वस्य मेध्यस्यार्षं वैश्वदेवं त्रैष्टुभम् । अनुक्रान्तं च- यमृत्विजस्तृचं वैश्वदेवमाद्य ऋत्विक्स्तुतिर्वा ’ इति । आद्या ऋत्विग्देवत्या वा इत्यर्थः । विनियोगः सूत्रादवगन्तव्यः ।।

Jamison Brereton

58 (1027)
“Fragment”
Not mentioned in the Anukramaṇī, so without rṣ̥ i attribution
3 verses: triṣṭubh
This fragment of three verses is not transmitted as a unity in the khila collections, with verses 1–2 and 3 located separately. Verse 3 in fact appears to belong to the Aśvin hymn VIII.57, with which it fits well: the “left-over” soma it mentions is a standard offering in the Third Pressing treated in VIII.57.
As for the other two verses, Geldner memorably characterizes verse 1 as a riddle without an answer, and verse 2 as an answer without a preceding riddle. This seems persuasive, and the two verses may have been secondarily connected because of the bahudhā́ “in many forms, in many ways” that appears in the middle of the first pāda of each verse. Proferes argues (2007: 56), again persuasively, that verse 1 inquires about the compact or agreement between the Sacrificer and the priests that is ritu
ally dramatized in the later śrauta system in the ritual of the Tānūnaptra, in which a formal alliance is created among these participants, and he suggests that this verse is a precursor of that later ceremony. Verse 2, on the other hand, has been taken, since Sāyaṇa, as the answer to the riddle posed in X.88.18ab “How many fires and how many suns? How many dawns, and how many waters?” and the tone of this verse is in harmony with the philosophical speculation characteristic of such Xth Maṇḍala hymns.

Jamison Brereton Notes

Fragment

01 यमृत्विजो बहुधा - त्रिष्टुप्

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य᳓म् ऋत्वि᳓जो बहुधा᳓ कल्प᳓यन्तः
स᳓चेतसो यज्ञ᳓म् इमं᳓ व᳓हन्ति
यो᳓ ऽनूचानो᳓° ब्राह्मणो᳓ युक्त᳓ आसीत्
का᳓ स्वित् त᳓त्र य᳓जमानस्य संवि᳓त्

02 एक एवाग्निर्बहुधा - त्रिष्टुप्

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ए᳓क एवा᳓ग्नि᳓र् बहुधा᳓ स᳓मिद्ध
ए᳓कः सू᳓र्यो वि᳓श्वम् अ᳓नु प्र᳓भूतः
ए᳓कैवो᳓षाः᳓ स᳓र्वम् इदं᳓ वि᳓ भाति
ए᳓कं वा᳓ इदं᳓ वि᳓ बभूव स᳓र्वम्

03 ज्योतिष्मन्तं केतुमन्तम् - त्रिष्टुप्

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ज्यो᳓तिष्मन्तं केतुम᳓न्तं त्रिचक्रं᳓
सुखं᳓ र᳓थं सुष᳓दम् भू᳓रिवारम्
चित्रा᳓मघा य᳓स्य यो᳓गे ऽधिजज्ञे
तं᳓ वां हुवे᳓ अ᳓ति रिक्तम्† पि᳓बध्यै