--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "llundrub" <llundrub@> wrote: > > > > So I know yagyas are the way of heyam dukam anagatam etc, but what > are the > > mechanics exactly? I mean, do the devas just dig it so much that we > do > > ceremonies that they shower blessings? So they are not altruistic? > They will > > only help those who sacrifice? What are the mechanics? Are they > moral? If > > you only sacrificed exactly so much do you only get exactly so much > back? Or > > is the quality of the priest important? If you have a huge and > expensive > > yagya with a shitty pundit is it not as good as a poor yagya with a > great > > pundit? And so on... Is it not only karma really? The amount of > energy put > > into the aspect of creation through ritual? > > FWIW-- > > Here's the first part of the "Richo Akshare" verse > of the Rig Veda (MMY-approved translation): > > The verses of the Ved exist in the collapse of fullness, in the > transcendental field, in which reside all the devatas, the > impulses of creative intelligence, the laws of nature responsible > for the whole manifest universe.
The chandas of that verse is triSTup (triSTubh), (normally) four times eleven syllables, but according to Macdonell, occasionally 10 or 12 syllables. The first line seems to have 10 syllables: R-co a-kSa-re pa-ra-me vyo-man The "interesting" thing is that "vyoman" is an irregular, or something, locative singular form. The "basic" suffix of locative singular is 'i', so it "should" actually be "vyomani*". (The adjective attribute "parame" is sandhi for "parama+i"). So, the "correct" form, "vyo-ma-ni", would render that line to a "normal" triSTup... :0 *) parame (in the highest) vyoman[i] (in "heaven")
