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This word is attested only once in the Avesta. In Y. 9.14 we read: tgtm... ahunam vairfmfrasrdvay6 vgbaraOwantarn "du hast (das Gebet) AhV. vorgetragen unter Einhaltung der Pausen ''1 (Bartholomae).
The meaning assigned by Bartholomae to this word as referring to the mode of recitation by separating the verses or parts of verses with pauses in between seems to be correct. We may compare this use of ff~barwith the similar use of v&/har-"to separate (with a pause or insertions)" found in the Sanskrit ritual texts. WhiIe prescribing the hymn for the .~jya~astra of the morning pressing the Aitareya Brfihma.na (2.35.1) says: pra vo dev~y~gnaya 2 ity anu.st.ubha.h/ prathame pade viharati, 3 tasm~t stry argt viharati4/ samasyaty uttare pade tasm~t pum6n ~ra samasyati/ "He separates 5 the first two Padas; therefore a woman separates her thighs. He creates (mistake for 'unites') the last two Padas; therefore a man unites his thighs" (Keith). Cf. S~ya.na: viharanarh p.rthakkaran, am/ dvayo.h p~dayor madhye vih&arh vicchedarh k.rtvd pat.het. According to * I am thankful to Dr. H.-P. Schmidt for some valuable references in this paper.
x Reichelt follows Bartholomae "by observing the pauses" i.e. with pauses between the three verses of the Ahuna Vairya. Lommel renders, "... hast du ... das Ahunavarya-Gebet hergesagt, das in Abschnitte gegliederte (?).. 2' RV. 3.13.1.
s Kau.Br. 14.2 uses pade vigrhn~ti. 4 Cf. with this y6s ta ~r~ vihdrati RV. 10.162.4. 5 For another use of viharati "separates, keeps distinct" cf. Ait. Br. 2.37.1 : tad yad Ajyena Pavam~nam anu~arhsati Praiigen(ljyarh devarathasyaiva tad antarau ragmf viharati/".., in that with the Ajya he follows in recitation the Pavam~ma, with the Prai~ga the ,~jya (stotra), verily thus he separates the inner reins of the chariot.. 2' (Keith). Kau.Br. 14.4, however, looks upon the recitation of the ,~jya and the Praiiga as 'intertwining' cf. te etad viharati yath~ rathasy~ntarau ragmf vyatisajed "Thus he transposes the two; it is as if one were to intertwine the outer (? mistake for 'inner) reins of a chariot" (Keith). For this use of viharati "intertwine" cf. below.
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