ceremony (23. 12) in an expiatory rite; also 114 alone (30. 22), in the sāutrāmaṇī sacrifice, with washing of the māsara vessel.
Translated: Ludwig, p. 443; Grill, 45, 172; Griffith, i. 308; Bloomfield, 164, 528.
1. O gods! whatever cause of the wrath of the gods we, O gods, have committed—from that do ye, O Ādityas, release us by right of right (ṛtá).
The whole hymn is found in TB. (in ii. 4. 48-9), with mā for nas in c as the only variant in this verse. Then this verse occurs again with a somewhat different version of c, d in TB. ii. 6. 61, with which a version in MS. iii. 11. 10 precisely agrees; and yet again, more slightly different, in TB. iii. 7. 121, with which nearly agree versions in TA. ii. 3. 1 and MS. iv. 14. 17. In TB. ii. 6. 61 (and MS.), the second half-verse reads thus: agnír mā tásmād énaso víçvān múñcatv áṅhasaḥ; in TB. iii. 7. 121, it is ā́dityās tásmān mā muñcata rtásya rténa mā́m utá (TA. itá for utá ⌊cf. v. Schroeder, Tübinger Kaṭha-hss., p. 68⌋; MS. omits mā in c, and has, for d, rtásya tv ènam ā́ ’mútaḥ, with variants for the last two words). VS. xx. 14 has our a, b, without variant ⌊and adds the c, d of TB. ii. 6. 6⌋. ⌊In b, MS. iv. 14. 17 has yád vācā́ ’nṛtam ódima (accent! Kaṭha ūdimá).⌋
2. By right of right, O Ādityas, worshipful ones, release ye us here, in that, O ye carriers of the sacrifice, we, desirous of accomplishing (çak) the sacrifice, have not accomplished it.
Both editions read at the end, as is necessary, -ekimá, although only two* of our mss. (I.D.), and a small minority of SPP's authorities, accent the a (the pada mss. absurdly reading úpa॰çekima). Ppp. has instead, for d, sikṣantu upārima. TB. has mā for nas at end of b, yajñāír vas for yajñáṁ yát in c, and, for d, āçikṣanto ná çekima, which is better. Yajñavāhasas would be better as nominative. The comm. explains çikṣantas by niṣpādayitum icchantas. ⌊For the pada blunder, cf. vi. 74. 2.⌋ *⌊Whitney's collations seem clearly to give Bp.2p.m.I.H.D. as reading -çekimá.⌋
3. Sacrificing with what is rich in fat, making oblations of sacrificial butter (ā́jya) with the spoon, without desire, to you, O all gods, desirous of accomplishing we have not been able to accomplish.
Part of the mss. (including our P.M.I.) accent víçve in c, and the decided majority (not our Bp.M.W.R.s.m.T.) accent çekimá at the end (by a contrary blunder to that in 2 d), which SPP., accordingly, wrongly admits into his text. TB. has (also Ppp.) ā́jyena in b; also it reads vo viçve devāḥ in c;, and, of course, çekima at the end; Ppp. çeṣima.
115. For relief from sin.
[Brahman.—vāiçvadevam. ānuṣṭubham.]
Found also in Pāipp. xvi. For the use of this hymn by Kāug., and in part by Vāit., with the preceding, see under that hymn; Vāit. has this one also alone in the āgrayaṇa iṣṭi (8. 7), with ii. 16. 2 and v. 24. 7; and vs. 3 appears (30. 23) in the sāutrāmaṇī́ next after hymn 114.
Translated: Ludwig, p. 443; Zimmer, p. 182 (vss. 2, 3); Grill, 46, 172; Griffith, i. 308; Bloomfield, 164, 529.
