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.
will have to perform twice in one day! (Vâg. S. V,8), What most excellent iron-clad body is thine, O Agni, established in the deep, it hath chased away the cruel word, it hath chased away the fearful word; Hail!' for such-like it was, it was indeed iron.
24. Again he offers (with the verse) with which he will have to perform twice in one day, 'What most excellent silver-clad body is thine, O Agni, established in the deep, it hath chased away the cruel word, it hath chased away the fearful word; Hail!' for such-like it was, it was indeed silver.
25. And again he offers (with the verse) with which he will have to perform twice in one day, What most excellent gold-clad body is thine, O Agni, established in the deep, it hath chased away the cruel word, it hath chased away the fearful word; Haill' for such-like it was, it was indeed golden. If he undertakes twelve Upasads, let him perform each of them for four days.
26. Now then of the fast-homages. Some Upasads get wider and wider, others narrower and narrower : those at which he milks out one (teat)a on the first day, then two, and then three, are those that get wider and wider; and those at which he
" While the Hotri, as we saw (parag. 2, above), uses the same two verses twice in one day, viz. one for the anuvâkyâ in the morning and for the yâgyâ in the afternoon; and the other for the yagyâ in the morning and for the anuvâkyâ in the evening,—the Adhvaryu is to use the three formulas here mentioned on the three Upasad days respectively, both at the morning and afternoon performances.
3 Viz. of the vratadugha, or cow supplying his fast-milk. The milk so obtained is to be his only food during the Upasad days.
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