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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
for, assuredly, Pragâpati is undefined 2 (mysterious); and undefined are the butter-portions, because they have the sacrificer for their deity; for the sacrificer is Pragâpati at his own sacrifice, since it is by his order that the priests spread and produce it.
21. Having basted the havis with butter and made two cuttings from it, he pours some of the butter thereon: thus the oblation is offered combined with butter, and thereby indeed it is offered combined with the sacrificer; and for one who knows this, whether he has a sacrifice performed for him while he is far away, or while he is near,—the sacrifice is performed in the same way as it would be performed if he were near; and he who knows this, even though he do much evil, is not shut out from the sacrifice.
SECOND BRÂHMANA. 1. Verily, by means of the sacrifice the gods made that conquest (of the world of heaven). When they had conquered, they said, 'How may this (celestial region) be made unattainable by men ?' They then sipped the sap of the sacrifice, as bees would suck out honey; and having drained the sacrifice and effaced the traces of it with the sacrificial) post?, they
1 Because he (? as lord of creatures) represents all the deities, and one cannot say he is such or such a one,' Sâyana. Cf. also I, 1, 1, 12.
Yapena yopâyitva, literally "having made it level by means of the yll pa,'=yQpenâkkhadya, 'having covered it over with the yapa,' Sayana (cf. also on Rig-veda I, 104, 4). For other versions of the same myth, cf. Ait. Br. II, 1 ['they debarred them (a yopayan, viz. the men and Rishis from the sacrificial knowledge) by means of the yll pa,' Haug]; Taitt. S. VI, 3, 4, 7;
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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 |