Essays And Lectures On the Religions of the Hindus volume 2
Essays And Lectures On the Religions of the Hindus volume 2
H H Horace Hayman Wilson
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* [Hig-V. I, h. 24, 1. ] ** [ib. 2. ] *** [ib. 3. ] f [h. 24, 6-15 and h. 25. ] 3 We have twenty-three in (he text ; the last is to be omitted, as not addressed to Agin. 256 ON HUMAN SACRIFICES IN THE beginning 'Vasishtha hi*. ' Agni said, "Praise the Viswadevas, and then we will liberate you;" so Sunahsepha praised them, saying, 'Namo mahadbhyah, ' &c. **; but the Viswadevas said, "Indra is the mightiest of the gods, the most excellent, and the most able to lead men to happiness; worship him, ...and we will loose you;" so Sunahsepha praised Indra with the hymn beginning ' Yach-chid-dhi satya so- mapa***;' and Indra, being pleased by this prayer, gave him a golden chariot 1 . He nevertheless recom- mended him to propitiate the Aswins; he did so, and they desired him to praise Ushas, or the personified dawn, which he did in three concluding stanzas, on repeating which his bonds fell off, and he was set free; and the king, the father of Kohita, was cured of his complaint. Then the priests said to him, "Perform the com- pletion of this our rite to-day;" on which he showed to them the [mode of] offering the libation of the Soma juice, accompanying it by four stanzas, beginning ' Yach-chid-dhi f ;' then having brought the pitcher (drona kalasa), he directed the remainder to be poured into it, with the stanza 'Uchchhishtam chamborff;' * [h.
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