Long Vedic sacrifices?

[Michael Witzel]

Found at the end of Pancavimsa Brahmana: long Sattras, of a 1000 years
(VizvasRj?) , and a longer one by Prajapati....

Engl. transl. by W. Caland, PB, Calcutta 1931


>The vArttika on the ashhTAdhyAyI of Panini, and its commentary by
>Patanjali, contain a puzzling reference to certain Vedic rites that took
>hundreds or thousands of years to perform:
>
>  vArttika:  aprayukte dIrghasatravat.h  |
>
>  bhAshhya:  yadyapi aprayuktAH avashyaM dIrghasatravallaxaNenAnuvidhaH  |
>             tad.h yathA -- dIrgha satrANi varshhashatikAni
>             varshhasahasrikANi cha  |  na chAdyatve kashchidapi
>             Aharati  |  kevalaM R^ishhisampradAyo dharma iti kR^itvA
>             yAj~nikaH shAstreNAnuvidadhate  |
>
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