Satapatha Bramhana Part 02

SR No.: 007678
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1885
Total Pages: 2521
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 44 MB

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III KANDA, 3 ADHYAYA, 2 BRAHMANA, 8. 65
(the sacrificer) say the text (Våg. S. IV, 24), 'Say thou, for me, unto Soma, "This is thy gâya tripart (bhaga)!" Say thou, for me, unto Soma, "This is thy trishtubh-part!" Say thou, for me, unto Soma, "This is thy gayati-part!" Say thou, for me, unto Soma, "Obtain thou the supreme sovereignty of the names of metres!". Now, when he (king Soma) is bought, he is bought for one (destination 2)-for the sovereignty of the metres, for the supreme sovereignty of the metres; and when they press him, they slay him: hereby now he says to him, 'It is for the sovereignty of the metres, for the supreme sovereignty of the metres that I buy thee, not for slaying thee.' Having gone there, he sits down (behind the Soma) with his face towards the east.
7. He touches (the Soma-plants), with, 'Ours thou art,'-thereby he (Soma), now that he has come (as a guest), becomes as it were one of his (the sacrificer's) own (people): for this reason he says, 'Ours thou art;'-Thy pure (juice) is meet for the draught,' for he will indeed take therefrom the 'pure draught.' 'Let the pickers pick thee!' this he says for the sake of completeness.
8. Now some, on noticing any straw or (piece of) wood (among the Soma-plants), throw it away. But let him not do this; for-the Soma being the nobility and the other plants the common people, and the
The three parts refer to the three Savanas, at which the respective metres are used. See IV, 3, 2, 7 seq.
* Bhagam appears to have been lost here, since a play on that word seems to be intended, which might perhaps be reproduced by 'lot.' It is given both at the Kânva text and at III, 4, 1, 7. For the Sukra-graha, see IV, a, I, I seq.
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