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Updated: May 28, 2025
With Om the Adhvaryu gives orders, with Om the Hotri recites, with Om the Udgatri sings, which declares the pranava which is a 'quality' of the meditation, in so far as it is its basis to be common to the three Vedas, further shows that the meditation has to be employed in connexion with the sacrifice.
For as the bow is among weapons the mightiest, the most glorious, the most splendid, thus is he who knows this among all beings the mightiest, the most glorious, the most splendid. The Adhvaryu conceives the fire of the altar, which is used for the sacrifice, to be himself. In it he the Adhvaryu weaves the Yagus portion of the sacrifice.
And in the Yagus portion the Hotri weaves the Rik portion of the sacrifice. And in the Rik portion the Udgâtri weaves the Sâman portion of the sacrifice. He, the Adhvaryu, or prâna, is the self of the threefold knowledge; he indeed is the self of prâna. He who knows this is the self of it, i.e., becomes prâna. "Next follow the three kinds of meditation of the all-conquering Kaushîtaki.
For the godohana vessel serves to bring water, and this of course none else can do but the Adhvaryu; while a meditation on the Udgitha as being the essence of all essences can very well be performed by the Sacrificer true though it be that the Udgitha itself can be performed by the Udgatri priest only. Against this view the next Sutra declares itself.
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