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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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
intermediate consecration, therefore this in termediary consecration (avântaradikshâ, is performed). They turned in their fingers more tightly and drew! their zone tighter, whereby they (again) put round them what had been put round them before 2;-and so does he thereby make atonement for what heretofore he has done injurious to the vow, for what he has spoken injurious to the vow.
3. By means of the fire they (the priests) envelop him with a skin. Now, fire being fervour, and the consecration being fervour, he thereby undergoes an intermediate consecration. He turns in his fingers more tightly and draws the zone tighter, whereby he (again) puts round himself what was put round him before. Moreover, it was offspring the gods thereby
obtained.
4. By means of Agni (fire) they enveloped (the body) with a skin. Now, Agni being the causer of sexual union, the progenitor, they thereby obtained offspring. They turned in their fingers more tightly and drew their zone tighter, whereby they produced offspring for themselves. And in like manner does he (the sacrificer) thereby obtain offspring.
5. By means of Agni he envelops himself with a skin. Now, Agni being the causer of sexual union, the progenitor, he thereby : obtains offspring. He turns in his fingers more tightly and draws his zone tighter, whereby he produces offspring for himself.
6. Now, while the gods were consecrated, whichever of them fetched fire-wood or uttered his appointed texts, him the Asura-Rakshas endeavoured to
1 Our text has no verb; the Kânva recension reads "auhanta.' 2 Viz. the diksha, as symbolised by the zone (or the skin). : Viz. through Agni, or the Avântaradîksha.
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