Page 49 - Lokmanya Tilak Samagra (khand 2)

36 SAMAGRA TILAK- 2 • THE ORION
(by) beginning the year. • Those that sacrifice on the EkA~h~akA,
sacrifice to· the distressed ( period ) of the year. It is the season
( dual) whose name comes last. Those, that sacrifice on the Eki~h­
tak£, sacrifice to the reversedt ( period ) of the year. It is the
~eason ( dual ) whose name comes last. They should consecrate
themselves for the sacrifice on the PhAI.gunt full-moon. ThePhAiguni
full-moon is the mouth of the year. They sacrifice (by) beginning·
the year from tlle very mouth. It has only one fault, viz., that the
Vil!hUVln ( i. e. the equator or the central day ) falls in the rains.
They should consecr~te themselves for the sacrifice on the Chitra
full-moon. TheChitrA full-moon is the mouth of the year. They sacri-
fice ( by ) beginning the year from the very mouth. It has no fault
whatsoever. They should consecrate themselves for the sacrifice
four days before the full-moon. Their Kraya (i.e. the purchase
of soma ) falls on the EU~h~A. Thereby they do not render the
EU~h~aka void ( i. e. of no consequence). Their Sutya ( i. e.
the extraction of. soma juice ) falls in the first ( i. e., the bright )
half ( of the month ). Their months ( i. e. the monthly sacri-
fices ) fall in the first half. They rise ( i. e. finish their sacrifice )
in the first half. On their rising, herbs and plants rise after them.
After them rises the good fame that these sacrifices have prospered.
Thereon all prosper. "
Here in the beginning we are told that tbe E.ka~h~aka is the
<lay to commence the Satra, which lasts for one year. But the word
EkAl!hlaka is used to denote the eighth day of the latter (dark)
half of the four months. of Hem~nta and Shish.ira seasons,t and
sometimes it means the eighth day of the dark half of each of the
twelve months of the year.§ The statement in the following sen-
tences. that this EU~h!aka is liable to the objection of occurring
in the cold or the last season does, however, at once narrow the

• The TAI;l:lya BrAhm~a, ( Sut,a 3 in the above passage) adds a
third reason thus :-" They go to av~hritha [ i. e. the final bath ] not
delighted with water." Shabara and other commentators on Jaimini
have noticed this additional ground for rejecting the Ek~h~ak4.
t According to. the T4~Jya Brlhma~a "broken" or "destroy~d ".
t Cf. Ashv. Gri. Sutra ii. 4· 1; {4:it'l~l~l<41"'1gunJ~q(q~JVIr+re~61f!ifif:
§ Cf. T4'(l~ya Brihm~ x. 3, II. &:l~~ifiU!ifil: i(l~ltlliii'II\~H: I S4ya~a
in his commentary on TAl].. Br. v. 9 observes that Eka,htaka is there