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, 2 ADHYÂYA, I BRÂHMANA, 18.
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muttering the text (Vâg. S. I, 19): "The stay of the sky art thou !' that is to say, it represents the atmosphere ; for by means of the atmospheric region those two, the sky and the earth, are firmly kept asunder; and for this reason he says, “The stay of the sky art thou!'
17. He then puts the upper mill-stone on (the lower one), with the text (Vág. S. I, 19): “A rockborn bowl art thou! May the rock acknowledge theel' For this one being smaller is, as it were, the daughter (of the lower mill-stone) '; for this reason he calls it 'rock-born.' "May the rock acknowledge thee!' he says, because one of the same kin acknowledges (receives the other): thereby he establishes an understanding between those two millstones, thinking they will not hurt one another!' This one, as it were, represents the sky; (or) the two mill-stones are, as it were, the two jaws, and the wedge is the tongue: that is why he beats (the mill-stones) with the wedge ?, for it is with the tongue that one speaks.
18. He now pours the rice on (the lower stone), with the text (Vag. S. I, 20): 'Grain (dha nyam) art thou ! do thou gratify (dhi) 3 the gods !' for it is
and to his commentators and Mahîdhara on Vâg. S. I, 19) and the Black Yagur-veda, he does not lay the wedge on the lower millstone, but inserts it under the west or back-part of the stone, so as to make the latter incline towards east and to steady it.
1 In the Gobhillya Grihya-sätra II, 1, 16 the upper stone is similarly called 'the son or child' of the lower one [drishatputra), which the editor, Kandrakanta, interprets as 'drishad and its son;' or optionally, the son of the drishad.' Cf. Weber, Ind. Stud. V, p. 305 note.
. See I, 1, 4, 13.
3 Mahîdhara derives dhânya from the root dhi; and apparently allows to it here the double meaning corn or grain,' and that which satisfies or pleases.'
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