Upnishad

SR No.: 007670
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 1835
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 35 MB

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I ÂRANYAKA, 2 ADHYAYA, 2 KHANDA, 18.
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according to the one-day (ekâha) ceremonial, is perfect in form. On that day much is done now and then which has to be hidden, and has to be atoned for (by recitation of hymns). Atonement is rest, the one-day sacrifice. Therefore at the end of the year (on the last day but one of the sacrifice that lasts a whole year) the sacrificers rest on this atonement as their rest.
He who knows this rests firm, and they also for whom a Hotri priest who knows this, recites this hymn 1
18. These, if recited straight on, are ninety-seven verses. The ninety are three Virág, each consisting of thirty, and then the seven verses which are over. Whatever is the praise of the seven, is the praise of ninety also.
1 With this hymn the Marutvatîya-sastra is finished. All the hymns from â två ratham to asat su me garitar are simply taken over from the Katurvimsa ceremonial, the rest are peculiar to the Mahâvrata day, the day preceding the Udayanîya or final day of the Gavâmayana sattra. All this is more fully described in the fifth Aranyaka (V, 1, 1,8), containing the Sätras or rules of Saunaka, while the earlier Aranyakas are reckoned as Brâhmanas, and are therefore mixed up with matters not actually required for the performance of the sacrifice. * The first Stotriya and Anurapa
trikas = . . . . 6 (I, 2, 1, 1). The six Pragathas, each of 2 verses
raised to 3 (but the text gives
seven Pragâthas) = . . 18 (1,2,1,3; 4; 5; 6;11; 12; 13). Three Dhâyyâs = . . . 3 (1, 2, 1, 7; 8; 9). Asat su = . . . .
. 24 (1, 2, 2, 1). Pibâ somam = .
• 15 (I, 2, 2, 6). Kaya subha = .
· 15 (I, 2, 2, 9). Marutvån indra =
· 5 (I, 2, 2, 13). Ganishtha ugrah =
· 11 (1, 2, 2, 17).
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