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.
(the jar). He does so, thinking 'where we want to yoke, there we unyoke;' for from the same place where they yoke, they also unyoke.
9. (Like) fire, verily, is the yoke of that very cart; for the yoke is indeed (like) fire: hence the shoulder of those (oxen) that draw this (cart) becomes as if burnt by fire. The middle part of the pole behind the prop represents, as it were, its (the cart's) altar?; and the enclosed space of the cart (which contains the rice) constitutes its havirdhanam (receptacle of the sacrificial food) 2.
10. He now touches the yoke, with the text (Våg. S. I, 8 a): 'Thou art the yoke (dhur); injure (dhurv) thou the injurer! injure him that injures us! injure him whom we injure! For there being a fire in the yoke by which he will have to pass when he fetches the material for the oblation, he thereby propitiates it, and thus that fire in the yoke does not injure him when he passes by.
11. Here now Âruni said: 'Every half-moon 3 I destroy the enemies.' This he said with reference to this point.
The pole of an Indian cart consists of two pieces of wood, joined together in its forepart and diverging towards the axle. Hence, as Såyana remarks, it resembles the altar in shape, being narrower in front and broader at the back, the altar measuring twenty-four cubits in front and thirty cubits at the back. At the extreme end of the pole a piece of wood is fastened on, or the pole itself is turned downwards, so as to serve as a prop or rest (popularly called 'sipoy' in Western India, and horse' in English).
3 The havirdhana (-mandapa) is a temporary shed or tent erected on the sacrificial ground for the performance of the Somasacrifice, in which the two carts containing the Soma-plants are placed. These carts themselves, however, are also called havirdhana. Cf. IV, 6, 9, ro seq.; III, 5, 3, 7.
* I.e. at the time of the new and the full moon. Schol.
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