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, 4 ADHYAYA, 3 BRAHMANA, 2. 97
from those divine objects) that he burns. Hence, if many persons perform the consecration', let it (the Tânûnaptra butter), after pouring the fast-milk to it, be handed only to the master of the house, since he, among them, is the representative of Indra. And if he perform the consecration by means of an (offering) with a dakshinâ, let them hand it (the butter) to the sacrificer, after pouring the fast-milk to it, for thus it is said, 'The Sacrificer is Indra.'
16. Now what favourite forms and desirable powers the gods then laid together, all that was wrought together and became the Sâman: wherefore they say, 'The Sâman is the truth, the Sâman is born of the gods.'
THE AVÂNTARADIKSHA, OR INTERMEDIARY
CONSECRATION.
THIRD BRAHMANA.
1. When the gods had performed the guestoffering, discord arose between them. They allayed it by means of the Tânûnaptra (oaths). They desired an atonement for having spoken evil to one another; for they had appointed no other consecration-ceremony till the expiatory bath. They perceived this intermediate consecration2.
2. By means of fire they enveloped (the body) with a skin. Now, fire being fervour, and the consecration being fervour, they thereby underwent an intermediate consecration; and because they underwent that
1 That is, in a Sattra or sacrificial session, where all the officiating priests are consecrated and 'sacrificers;' the Yagamâna proper being styled Grihapati (master of the house). See IV, 6, 8, I seq. * The Avântaradîkshâ extends to the
end of the sixth Brahmana.
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