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, 8 ADHYAYA, 3 BRÂHMANA, 10.
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7. Thereupon (the Adhvaryu) anoints the enclosing-sticks (paridhi) with (the butter attaching to) the guha. With that (spoon) with which he has made offering to the gods, with which he has concluded the sacrifice, he thus gratifies the enclosingsticks: this is why he anoints them with the guhů.
8. He anoints them (successively), with the texts (Vâg. S. II, 16 a-c), 'For the Vasus thee!' 'For the Rudras thee!' 'For the Adityas thee!' For these to wit, the Vasus, Rudras, and Adityas-are three (classes of) gods : 'for them (I anoint) thee,' he thereby says.
9. Thereupon, taking hold of the (middle) enclosing-stick, he calls (on the Âgnidhra) to bid (them) listen2: thus (i.e. by touching the paridhi) it is for the enclosing-sticks that he calls for the sraushat. The sraushat-call assuredly is the sacrifice : hence he thereby expressly gladdens the enclosing-sticks by means of the sacrifice : for this reason he calls for the sraushat, while taking hold of the enclosingstick.
10. Having called for the sraushat (and been responded to by the Agnidhra), he thus addresses (the Hotri), ‘The divine Hotris 3 are summoned, the divine Hotris, namely, are (represented by these
and with sons of the father's sister. See Weber, Ind. Stud. X, p. 75; Max Müller, History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, p. 387; Bühler, Sacred Laws of the Aryas, I, p. 126.
1 Viz. in the order in which they were laid around, i. e. first the middle one, then the southern, and lastly the northern one. Kâty. III, 5, 24.
9 The Adhvaryu calls on the Agnidhra with ‘Make listen (o srâvaya); and the latter responds with. Yea, may (one) listen! (astu sraushan). See I, 5, 2, 18 seq.
· Såyana on Taitt. S. I, 1, 13 explains this by 'Impelled are the divine Hotris by the highest Lord (paramesvara).'
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