बलिदानविधिःThe rule of offering bali
Verse 110
ततश्चोदीरयेन् मन्त्री तन्नो जीवः प्रचोदयात् । एषा तु पशुगायत्री पशुपाशविमोचनी ॥ ११० ॥
tataścōdīrayēn mantrī tannō jīvaḥ pracōdayāt | ēṣā tu paśugāyatrī paśupāśavimōcanī || 110 ||
Translation
then the mantrī should say "tan no jīvaḥ pracodayāt". This is the paśu-gāyatrī, which frees from the noose of the bound.
Word by word
- tataś
- (tataḥ) then
- cōdīrayēn
- (ca udīrayet) and should say
- mantrī
- the practitioner
- tan
- (tat) that
- nō
- (naḥ) us
- jīvaḥ
- the living one
- pracōdayāt
- may impel
- ēṣā
- this
- tu
- indeed
- paśu
- paśu
- gāyatrī
- Gāyatrī
- pāśa
- noose
- vimōcanī
- freeing from
Meaning
The whole Gāyatrī: paśupāśāya vidmahe viśvakarmaṇe dhīmahi tan no jīvaḥ pracodayāt, "we know the noose of the bound, we meditate on the maker of all; may the living one impel us". (The commentary reads viśvakarmaṇe, the dative the pattern needs; the verse has viśvakarmaṇi.)

Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 109.