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, 5 ADHYÂYA, I BRÂIIMANA, 25.
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me from disease !' thus he thereby says; for he whom these deities protect from disease, will not stumble (or fail).
23. He steps beside the Hotri's seat, takes one stalk of (reed) grass from the Hotri's seat and casts it outside the sacrificial ground), with the formula, 'Ejected is the wealth-clutcher (parâva su, lit. “offwealth") !' Formerly, namely, the Hotri of the Asuras was one Parâvasu by name: him he thereby ejects from the Hotri's seat.
24. He then sits down on the Hotri's seat, with the formula, 'I here sit down on the seat of the wealth-bestower (arvava su, lit. “hither-wealth")!' for one Arvávasu by name was the Hotri of the gods', and on his seat he accordingly sits down.
25. At the same time he mutters, 'O All-maker, thou art the protector of lives! do not ye two (fires) scorch me away (from this)?, injure me not ! this by Indra, and that outside of them there is no being (bhuvanam); and they are then enumerated thus: the expanse of the earth, the height (varshman, ? highest point or sphere) of the sky (div), the sap (piyusha) in the three elevations [? i. e. flowing, animating moisture, as rain, rivers, sap, &c.], the atmosphere, the ocean arnas, 7 of light, air), and the sky (div). The enumeration of six objects in Atharva-veda II, 12, I seems to refer to the same conception : heaven and earth (dyâvâprithivi), the wide atmospheric region, the genius (fem.) of the field (kshetrasya patni), the far-strider (Sun, Light), the wide atmospheric region (uru-antariksham as before; cf. the double enumeration of div in the Rik passage); and what has the Wind for its guardian (vâtagopa). Cf. Weber, Ind. Stud. XIII, p. 164. Sânkh. Grihyasätra I, 6, 4 gives heaven and earth, day and night, water and plants (St. Petersburg Dictionary s.v.).
ording to the Kaushît. Br. VI, 1o, Arvâvasu was the Brahman of the gods. Weber, Ind. Stud. II, 306.
· The Hotri's seat stands north of the north-west corner of the altar, the Ahavaniya and the Gârhapatya fires being about equidistant from it towards south-east and south-west respectively.
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