Passage 5

In English

From time immemorial our have been prescribing sacrificial rites like . In these , two parts are contained, namely and or recitations. Some people think that and are the same. That is not so. It is common knowledge that different flowers are collected and put together in the form of a garland. Here the flowers are not new. They are already there. The garland is new and is made by a person who puts the flowers together. On the same analogy, the are like the flowers and the are like the garland. The are already there and are not new. The stotra is like a garland and is composed by the by grouping the together. This or the , is protecting the stotra and is also called (one who protects the by regrouping them into ). This kind of song which comes from the two has been called . Not only this, is invited to come to the yajna with his chariot having the two - as the horses. Here the word , which has several other meanings in a different context, means a song. In order to invite to the hall of yajna, they sing a song with one and it is called “One Song”.