Editing Vamana (section)

=== Sama Veda ===
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|[[Samhita]]
|'''Part 1:''' Book III, Chapter I, Decade II (3.1.2.9); '''Part 2:''' Book VIII, Chapter II, Decade V (8.2.5)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sv.htm|title=Hymns of the Samaveda|website=www.sacred-texts.com|access-date=2020-01-22}}</ref>
|From [[Rigveda]] 1.22
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|[[Brahmana|Pancavimsa Brahmana]]
|'''Vishnu:''' XII.13.22, XX.3.2; '''Bali (tribute):''' XV.7.4<ref>{{Cite book|last=Dr. Narinder Sharma|url=https://archive.org/details/pancavimsabrahma032052mbp/page/410/mode/2up |title=Pancavimsa Brahmana English Translation |translator=W. Caland |year=1931|pages=411, 526|publisher=The Asiatic Society Of Bengal |language=en}}</ref>
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==== Samhita ====
{{blockquote|<poem>Through all this world strode [[Vishnu]]: thrice his foot he planted, and the whole
Was gathered in his footstep's dust.

Vishnu, the guardian, he whom none deceiveth, made three steps, thenceforth
Establishing his high decrees.</poem>|source=Sama Veda, translated by R. T. H. Griffith (1895), Part 2, Book VIII, Chapter II, Decade V, Verses 1-2|author=|title=}}The translator, [[Ralph T. H. Griffith|R.T.H. Griffith]], states in his introduction to the [[Sama Veda]] that it 'is made up of hymns, portions of hymns, and detached verses, taken mainly from the ''[[Rigveda]]''<nowiki/>'. The above-quoted Sama Veda hymn, for example, is taken directly from Rigveda hymn 1.22.

==== Pancavimsa Brahmana ====
{{blockquote|[[Prajapati]] created the (domestic) animals (the cattle, the cows). These, being created, left him. Through the agnistoma, he did not reach them, nor through the uktha(-land)s, nor through the sodasin, nor through the night (-rite), nor through the twilight(-laud), nor through the asvina (-sastra). In regard to them, he said to [[Agni]]; 'Try thou to reach these for me’. Agni was not able to reach them through (the first extra-laud:) the nine-versed stoma, the jarabodhlya-(-saman)... He said about them to [[Vishnu]]: ‘Try thou to reach these for me’. Vishnu reached them, through (the fourth extra laud) the twenty-one-versed stoma, through the varavantiya (-saman), he restrained them (from passing away farther, avarayata): with the verse: ‘Here did Vishnu stride’, he strode.|source=Pancavimsa Brahmana, translated by [[Willem Caland|W. Caland]] (1931), Chapter XX, 3.2}}

The terms 'stoma' and 'saman' from the above-quoted Pancavimsa [[Brahmana]] refer to [[mantra]]s and hymns, such from the [[Sama Veda]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sanskritdictionary.com/?q=stoma|title=Sanskrit Dictionary|website=www.sanskritdictionary.com|access-date=2020-03-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sanskritdictionary.com/?iencoding=iast&q=saman&lang=sans&action=Search|title=Sanskrit Dictionary|website=sanskritdictionary.com|access-date=2020-03-17}}</ref>

The Jaiminīya [[Brahmana]] has a similar verse (1.3.3.2; also of the Sama Veda) which omits [[Vishnu]]'s strides but explains the Varavantiya saman as 'He who desired cattle should apply the Varavantiya Saman. [[Prajapati]] created the animals. Having been created they ran away from him. By means of the Varavantiya Saman he held them back. Because he held them back (''avarayat'') therefore the Varavantiya is called the Varavantiya. The application of the Varavantiya as the [[Yajna|agnistoma]] Saman is made in order that the animals remain present and do not run away'.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bodewitz|first=H. W.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iTpgY3gLFPgC&q=varavantiya&pg=PA97|title=The Jyotiṣṭoma Ritual: Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa I, 66-364|date=1990|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-09120-7|pages=97|language=en}}</ref>

In the [[Taittiriya Samhita]] 5.5.8 (Black [[Yajurveda]]) Varavantiya is also explained as 'Prajapati created [[Agni]]; he [Agni], [being] created, went away from him; him [Agni] he [Prajapati] checked (''avarayata'') by the Varavantiya, and that is why the Varavantiya has its name. By the Cyaita he congealed him, and that is why the Cyaita has its name. In that he reverences, with the Varavantiya, he restrains him, and by the Cyaita he congeals him'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/yv/yv05.htm|title=Yajur Veda Kanda V|website=www.sacred-texts.com|access-date=2020-03-17}}</ref>

The strides of Vishnu are thus referred to in regard to restraining animals from running away from sacrifices (often in rituals [[Rice cake|rice-cakes]] and other plant or milk-based foods would be [[symbol]]ically sacrificed while the actual animals they represented would be left unharmed). This idea of being restrained by Vishnu strides may be linked to [[Mahabali|Bali]] often being restrained or bound in the legend of Vamana.