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

Page 1011

I KANDA, 6 ADHYAYA, 4 BRÂHMANA, II. 179
10. In reference to this point they say, 'One who has not performed the Soma-sacrifice1, must not offer the Sânnâyya; for, indeed, the Sânnayya is (of the same significance as) a Soma libation, and the latter is not permitted to one who is not a Somasacrificer hence he who has not performed the Soma-sacrifice, must not offer the Sânnayya.'
:
11. He may nevertheless offer the Sânnayya; for have we not heard within this place that he (Indra) said, 'Do ye now offer Soma to me, and then ye will prepare for me that invigorating draught (âpyâyana, viz. the Sânnâyya)!' 'This does not satiate me, prepare for me what will satiate me!' That invigorating draught they indeed prepared for
443): 'The Adhvaryu takes the milk from three cows called Gangâ, Yamunâ, and Sarasvati, on the morning and evening, and gives it to the Âgnfdhra. Half the milk is first drawn from the udder of each of the three cows under the recital of mantras; then the same is done silently. The milk is taken from these cows on the evening of the new-moon day, and on the morning of the following day, the so-called Pratipad (the first day of the month). The milk drawn on the evening is made hot, and lime-juice poured over it to make it sour; whereupon it is hung up. The fresh milk of the following morning is then mixed with it, and both are sacrificed along with the Purodâsa. Only he who has already performed the Agnish/oma is allowed to sacrifice the Sânnâyya at the Darsapurnima ish. (Oral information.)' In Vâg. S. I, 4 (Sat. Br. I, 7, 1, 17; Kâty. IV, 2, 25, 26) the names of the three cows are given as Visvâyu, Visvakarman, and Visvadhâyus, unless these are intended merely for epithets or mystic names. Cf. P. 188 note; Weber, Ind. Stud. IX, 232. Instead of the lime-juice, mentioned by Haug as used for rennet, Kâty. IV, 2, 33 prescribes that the milk remaining from the Agnihotra of the preceding evening, and since become sour, should be used.
1 Thus Taitt. S. II, 5, 5, I.
Atrântarena; atra vishaye antarena madhye, Sâyana; ? within this our range of hearing; or, in the course of the present ceremony.
N 2
1
Digitized by Google