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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
serves as an addition to rice and barley; and hence he increases the rice and barley by means of it: let him therefore eat only what grows in the forest.
11. Let him sleep that night in the house of the Åhavaniya fire or in the house of the Gårhapatya fire. For he who enters on the vow approaches the gods; and he sleeps in the midst of those very gods whom he approaches. Let him sleep on the ground 1; for from below, as it were, one serves one's superior.
B. THE PREPARATION OF THE OFFERINGS. After the morning's performance of the Agnihotra and the subsequent rising of the sun, the sacrificer chooses his Brahman, or superintending priest. [In the first place he gets six seats ready, covered with sacrificial grass: two of these, to be used by the Brahman and sacrificer during the ceremony of election, are placed somewhere on the north side of the sacrificial ground; another south of the Ahavaniya fire, to serve for the Brahman's permanent seat (brahmasadanam), and west of the latter (placed so as to be quite close to the altar to be constructed hereafter, cf. Kâty. Sr.1, 8, 28), the sacrificer's permanent seat; finally a seat north of each of the two fires, the Gârhapatya and the Ahavaniya, to be used by the Adhvaryu on certain occasions. The sacrificer and future Brahman then having seated themselves on the two first-mentioned seats on the north side, the former with his face turned northward, and the latter looking toward east; the sacrificer, holding the wooden sword (sphya) in his left hand, touches the right knee of the Brahman with his right hand, in which he holds barley-corns and] chooses him for his Brahman with the formula: ['Thou, of such and such a family, N. N. Sarman! we are about to perform the Full-moon sacrifice,'] 'O Lord of the earth! Lord of the world! Lord of the great universel we choose thee for our Brahman !' The chosen one then mutters (cf. Vâg. S. p. 57): 'I am the lord of the earth, I lord of the world, I lord of the great universe (mahabhůta) earth I ether I heaven! O God Savitri, thee they choose for their Brahman, their lord of prayer (Brihaspati)l' &c., 'Brihaspati is Brahman to the gods, I to the men !' He (or, according
"A shake-down of grass (âstaranam, ? a blanket) is not forbidden. Paddh. on Kâty. Sr. II, 1.
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| SR No. | 007674 |
| Book Title | Dhammapada |
| 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 |