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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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
cake (for the sacrificer's portion), he puts it (the latter) down on the barhis) before the dhruvaspoon. Having then handed over the former (the ida) to the Hotril, he passes by him towards the south.
14. He anoints the Hotri here? (with clarified butter taken from the idà); and with it the Hotri anoints his lips, with the text, 'Of thee, offered by the lord of the mind, I eat for sap, for out-breathing!'
15. He then anoints the Hotri here ; and with it the Hotri anoints his lips, with the text, 'Of thee, offered by the lord of speech, I eat for strength, for in-breathing !
16. At that time, namely, Manu became apprehensive (thinking), “This (part) of my sacrifice—that is, this idà representing the domestic offeringis certainly the weakest : the Rakshas must not
pieces.' The five cuttings of the idâ consist of the upastarana, or underlayer of butter in the idâ pâtri; of two cuttings of each of the havis (or dishes of sacrificial food) from their southern and central parts respectively; and of two drippings (or bastings, abhighårana) of butter, as in the case of the svishtakrit (see Kâty. III, 4, 6, and note on I, 7, 3, 20). According to some authorities, the idâ consists of four cuttings only (cf. Hillebrandt, Neu- und Vollm. p. 122).
According to Katy. III, 4, 8, 9, he does so without quitting his hold of the idà; and he withdraws the latter from the Hotri, when he anoints him.
? A gesture here indicated the two middle joints (or, according to Harisvâmin, the intermediate links) of the Hotri's right fore-finger, viz. first the lower joint, and afterwards (par. 15) the upper joint; whereupon the Hotri applies the respective joints to his lips and smears the butter on them, cf. Âsv. S. I, 7, 1; Kâty. III, 4, 9;
ndt, op. cit., p. 124. In Sat. Br. XII, 2, 4, 5 the fore-finger is called annâditamâ, or the finger which eats most food;' cf. Weber, Pratigñâsætra, p. 97. .
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