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next before in the same passage, or it may refer to ~e M&gha
full-moon as the Ekashtak& is mentioned immediately lifterwards
in connection with it. ·Jaimini decides that it is the full-moon in the
month of M&gha, for it is stated immediately after, that those who
• commence the sacrifice on this full-moon will purchase their Soma
on the EkA~h~akA. This Eki!!h~aka can evidently be no other than
the one mentioned in the beginning of the passage, and the object
of the arrangement last suggested is to utilise somehow or other
the important day of the EU~h~ka, which was at first recom-
mended for the commencement of the sacrifice itself, but which
bad to be given up on account of the three-fold objection stated
above. The full-moon must, therefore, be the one next preceding
this EU,htaU. Again the full-moon day is said to be such that
when the sacrifice is finished the herbs and the plants spring up,
which, as remarked by Shabara, can happen only in the Vasanta
season.
To sum up, the last mentioned full-moon, though not speci-
fically defined must be prior to the Vasanta season and also the
next previous to the EU!!h~U, which is the wife of the year and
which falls in the cold season, in the last season, i. e. Shishira ( or
when water is not delightful) and after the sun has passed through
the winter solstice. It must also be remembered that the Pbalgunt
and the ChitrA full-moon are to be excluded. Jaimini, therefore,
concludes tha~ this fu~l-moon cannot be ay oth• thin the one
falling in the month of Magha, and his conclusion bas been adopted
by all the Mim.Ansakas. We can now understand why LaugAk~hi,
quoted by SomAkara, states that • they sacrifice to the year four
days before the full-moon in Magha. ••

translate and explain are as follows :- ~- i()Jrlft~llf~S~; ~.
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Ill~; ~- ~~ .,.ltlilfltl:i 19. ~Jit . .,.I!!P!Utlt\; '· ~ .,. ~- Slyal}a
in his Jaimni nylyamAla YistA.ra and in his comm. on the Taitt. Saf!J.
fut:y adopts this view. But in his ccpnm. on the TlQ.~ya Brlhmar.a, v. 9
12. (Cal. Ed.) he is repr~sented as saying that the full moon last
mer:ationed refers to the Chaitri ! Someone, either the scribe, the prin-
ter, or the publisher, has here obviously commit~ed an error.
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