Dhammapada

SR No.: 007674
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2540
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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I KÂNDA, 6 ADHYAYA, 3 BRAHMANA, 26.
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fold way to consist of one deity; and he who knows this becomes individually the chief of his own (people).
23. Twofold, verily, is this, there is no third : to wit, the moist and the dry; and what is dry, that relates to Agni; and what is moist, that relates to Soma. But it may be objected) if this is twofold only, why then this manifold performance :—the two butter-portions for Agni and Soma, the low-voiced offering to Agni and Soma, and the rice-cake for Agni and Soma,—when by means of any one of these he obtains all, why then this manifold performance? [The answer to this objection is that) so manifold is the power, the generative force of Agni and Soma.
24. The sun, indeed, relates to Agni, and the moon to Soma; the day relates to Agni, and the night to Soma; the waxing half-moon relates to Agni, and the waning one to Soma.
25. By means of the two butter-portions he obtains the sun and the moon; by means of the lowvoiced offering he obtains the day and the night; and by means of the rice-cake he obtains the two half-moons,' thus say some.
26. Âsuri, on the other hand, said: 'By means of the two butter-portions he gains any two (of those objects "); by means of the low-voiced offering he obtains any (other) two; and by means of the ricecake he obtains any (other) two: "all has been obtained, all has been conquered by me! with that All I will slay Vritra! with the All I will slay the
! Yatame vâ yatame vâ dve åpnoti.' Sâyana supplies vastuni, 'objects. The Kånva recension, on the other hand, reads, 'Yatame vâ yatame và dve devate åpnoti.'
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