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They are called paryāya-sūktas in distinction from those among which they occur and which are named artha-sūktas. The separate portions of which they are composed are called each a paryāya ⌊or also paryāya-sūkta⌋. Each ⌊paryāya taken separately⌋ is in the mss. numbered as to its verses separately; but they ⌊the paryāyas of a given group taken together⌋ so evidently constitute each a whole, as shown by the sense and likewise by the manner in which the Anukramaṇīs treat them, that we ⌊R. and W.⌋ regarded it as beyond question that they should be numbered continuously, to save a citation by more than three numbers. ⌊In this connection should be consulted SPP's "Critical Notice," prefixed to vol. i., p. 19 ff.⌋ ⌊See pages cxxxiii-vii.⌋

⌊Each paryāya has its own summing up at the end: if a numbered division corresponding to an ṛc is composed of more than one divided portion, it is called a gaṇa, and its subdivisions avasāna-rcas or gaṇā ’vasāna-rcas. Thus the first division of viii. 10.⌋ is summed up as follows: paryāyaḥ 1, gaṇāḥ 6, gaṇāvasānarcaḥ 13; and it is by the latter number that the Anukr. treats it. Similarly the third paryāya of viii. 10⌋ is summed up as paryāya-sūktam 1, gaṇāḥ 4, gaṇāvasānarcaḥ 8. ⌊Cf. the summation at the end of viii. 10.⌋

In xii. 5 the divisions are called vacanāni or vacanā ’vasāna-rcas. In paryāyas 5 and 6 of xiii. 4 a distinction is made between avasānarcaḥ and gaṇāvasānarcaḥ, those which have the refrain receiving the latter designation.

The divisions of books xv. and xvi. are likewise paryāyas, and their subdivisions are styled avasānarcaḥ or ganāvasānarcaḥ in the same manner.

⌊The anuvāka-division of each of the ten-hymned books viii.-xi. is into five anuvākas of two hymns each; and that of book xii. (consisting of five long hymns) is also into five anuvākas, but these are of one hymn each, so that here the anuvāka-dison and the hymn-division coincide. The comm. divides the anuvākas into hymns in a manner nearly like that described for book vii. (see p. 3S8): that is, his "hymns" are mechanical decads of verses, with an overplus or shortage in the last "decad" when the total for the hymn (not—as in book vii.—for the anuvāka) is not an exact multiple of ten. A tabular conspectus for book viii. follows:

Anuvākas	1		2		3		4		5
	$\scriptstyle {\overbrace {\quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad } }$		$\scriptstyle {\overbrace {\quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad } }$		$\scriptstyle {\overbrace {\quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad } }$		$\scriptstyle {\overbrace {\quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad } }$		$\scriptstyle {\overbrace {\quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad } }$
Hymns	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Verses	21	28	26	25	22	26	28	24	26	33 ¶
Decad-div.	10+11	10+10+8	10+10+6	10+10+5	10+12	10+10+6	10+10+8	10+14	10+10+6	6 P

Here ¶ means "paragraph of a paryāya" (such as is numbered as a "verse" in the Berlin edition) and P means "paryāya." The last line shows the "decad"-division. These divisions are shown also in the Berlin edition. Of these "decads," anuvākas 1, 2, 3, and 4 contain respectively 5, 6, 5, and 5 (in all, 21 "decads"); while anuvāka 5 has 3 "decads" and 6 paryāyas. The sum is 24 "decad"-sūktas and 6 paryāya-sūktas or 30 sūktas. Cf. again the summation at the end of hymn 10.⌋

1. For some one's continued life.

[Brahman.—ekaviṅçakam. ārṣy (ārtvy?) āyuṣyam. trāiṣṭubham: 1. purobṛhatī triṣṭubh; 2, 3, 17-21. anuṣubh; 4, 9, 15, 16. prastārapan̄kti; 7. 3-p. virāḍ gāyatrī; 8. virāt pathyābrhatī; 12. 3-av. 5-p. jagatī; 13. 3-p. bhurin̄ mahābṛhatī; 14. 1-av. 2-p. sāmnī bhurig bṛhatī.]

Found also in Pāipp. xvi., with verse 17 after 20. ⌊Partly prose, "verse" 14.⌋

⌊Hymns 1 and 2 together are used with others in Kaug. in the upanayana (55. 17) with touching the student's navel, and again with others in rites for long life (58. 3, 11).