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 KÂNDA, 3 ADHYÂYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 15.
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impulse, the bestower of treasures, the wise and thoughtful friend;-he at whose impulse the resplendent light shone high, the goldenhanded sage hath measured the ether with his form.
13. Therewith he metes out the Soma) with all (five fingers), therewith with four, therewith with three, therewith with two, therewith with one; therewith with one, therewith with two, therewith with three, therewith with four, therewith with all (fingers); having laid (the two hands) together a he throws (Soma) thereon with the joined open hands.
14. He metes out while bending up and bending down (the fingers). The reason why he metes out in bending (the fingers) up and down is that he thereby makes those fingers of separate existence, and therefore they are born separate (from each other); and as to his meting out with all (fingers) together, these (fingers) are to be born, as it were, united. This is why he metes out in bending (the fingers) up and down.
15. And, again, as to his meting out in bending them up and down,—he thereby renders them of varied power, and hence these (fingers) are of varied the two kamů (originally the two receptacles or bowls into which the pressed Soma flows) in Rig-veda III, 55, 20.
1 Viz. with the same formula, repeating it each time. The meting out of the Soma is done with the fingers of the right hand, first with all five, and then successively turning in one (beginning with the thumb), till the little finger remains with which he takes Soma twice, whereupon he again successively releases the fingers.
. There is some doubt as to whether this refers to the preceding with all (viz. ten fingers); ' or whether he is to take for the tenth time some Soma with the five fingers of the right hand, and then once more (without muttering the text) with the joined hands. See Katy. VII, 7, 18, 19. The text seems to be purposely vague.
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