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, 7 ADHYÂYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, II.
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9. Let him cut off only a moderate quantity; for were he to cut off a large quantity, he would make it human; and what is human is inauspicious at the sacrifice. Let him therefore cut off only a moderate quantity, lest he should do what is inauspicious at the sacrifice.
10. Having made an under-layer of butter (in the guhd-spoon) and cut off twice from the havis, he then pours over it some butter. There are, indeed, two (kinds of) oblations; the oblation of Soma being one, and the oblation of (or rather, with) butter being the other. Now the one, viz. the Somaoblation, is (an oblation) by itself; and the other, viz. the butter-oblation, is the same as the offering of havis (rice, milk, &c.) and the animal offering?; hence he thereby makes it (the cake) butter, and therefore butter is on both sides of it. Butter, doubtless, is palatable to the gods; hence he thereby renders it palatable to the gods: for this reason butter is on both sides of it.
11. The invitatory prayer (anuvâk yâ, f.), doubtless, is yonder (sky), and the offering-prayer (yâgyâ, f.) is this (earth)—these two are females. With each of these two the vashat-call (vashatkâra, m.) makes up a pair? Now the vashat, indeed,
page 174 note. At the sân nâyya, two (or three) sruva-fuls of both the sweet and the sour milk take the place of the two or three) pieces of cake.
* See page 26, note 1. The parts of the cakes or the sånnayya, from which cuttings have been made, he bastes, each once, with butter taken with the sruva from the butter-pot; and whenever butter is ladled with the sruva from the dhruvâ into the guhů, the former is replenished from the butter-pot.
Tayor mithunam asti vashakara eva, 'to these two the vashalcall is the complement in forming a pair. On the vashat (vausha) and the other two formulas, see note on I, 5, 2, 16.
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