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31 SAMAGRA TU.AIC - . 2 • THB ORION
of the change of ayima.'! SacrificiJ.lg during the distressed period
of. t)le year is thua the mt objection to ~ommc;ncina the satro on,
the E.U~h~kA day. The second objection is that it is the last season,
that is, though you may be said to sacrifice to the constructive
beginning of the year, yet as far as the seasons are concerned you
sacrifice in the last of them. The word for season, ritu, has been
used in the ~ext in the dual number and it might be urged that it
denotes two seasons. A reference to the Taittirtya 8a.Q'lhit£ iv. 4-11, 1
will, however, show that the word ritu is there used in dual, pro·
bably because eac}l season comprises two months, t just as' scissors '
is used in plural in English. A similar passage also occurs in the
V&jasaneyt SaJphit& ( 13·25) and Mahtdhara while commenting
on it expressly states that the dual there has the meaning of the
singular number.:t The ' last named seasons ( dwl)' therefo!e,
simply means ' the last season. ' It must be here mentioned that
according to the passage in the T&p~ya BrAhmapa, whlch Shabara
appears to quote, the first objection is thus stated : ' not delighted
with water they go to avabhritha ( i. e., the final bath).' This is but
an amplification of the objection on the ground of the ' last
season ' and Khap~deva expressly says that water is then unde-
lightful ' on account of cold. ' The TAp~ya Bri.hmapa does not
omit the objection of the'' last season; ' but simply expands and
illustrates the same by referring to the natural dislike for a cold
bath in that season. We may, therefore, regard this objection
more as explaining the first than as an additional one. We now
come to the third objection viz., those that commence the sacrifice
on the EkA~h~aU day sacrifice to the reversed period of the year.
' Reversed', vyasta in the original, is said by Shabara to indicate
the change of ayana caused by the turning away of the sun from
the winter solstice,§ and SAyapa seems to understand it in the
same way. Thus although those that commence the satra on the
8th day of the dark half of MAgha may be supposed to do so

* al~ifqRt~~~~ I Shabara on J~imini vi. 5· 37· Slya~;~a in
his Comm. on Taitt. SllJ!l. says ~t~ITtf.llq;qRt¥tiTt~ ~ Jllfi:) ft ~­
~ IIIIi EilfteWtl<t: ;ri~8; I
t ~~~ ot'l'<Tlfll ~I Upon this passage the author of KAla
MAdhava observes flm 'l(t'tlf<flf4tiijifll5fl<f'l.l Cal. Ed. p. 59
t 1\lf"iiiii~.flif~ I
§ See Shabara quoted in the note above