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III KÂNDA, 5 ADHYAYA, 1 BRÂHMANA, I.
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milks out three on the first day, then two, and then one, are those that get narrower and narrower. Those getting narrower and narrower are (as good as) those getting wider and wider; and those getting wider and wider are (as good as) those getting narrower and narrower.
27. Verily, the world is conquered by austere devotion. Now, his devotion becomes ever and ever wider, he conquers an ever and ever more glorious world and becomes better even in this world, whosoever, knowing this, undertakes the Upasads that get narrower and narrower!: let him, therefore, undertake the Upasads that get narrower and narrower. And should he undertake twelve Upasads, let him have three (teats) milked out for four days, two for four days, and one for four days. .
PREPARATION OF THE SOMA ALTAR WITH
THE HIGH ALTAR'. FIFTH ADHYÂYA. First BRÂHMANA. 1. From that post which is the largest on the east side (of the hall): he now strides three steps forwards (to the east), and there drives in a peg, - this is the intermediate (peg).
1 The simile is apparently taken from the arrow, which pierces the deeper the more pointed it is; cf. parag. 14, above; Ait. Br. I, 25. Also Taitt. S. VI, 2, 3, 5, where a goad (ara?) is compared.
• The preparation of the special altars—viz. the large Soma altar (mahâ-vedi, or saumiki-vedi) and the high altar' (uttara-vedi) on the former-takes place on the last but one Upasad day, after the morning performance of the Upasads.
This post stands in the middle of the east door of the hall or Prâkîna-vamsa, just in front of the Ahavaniya-fire. See p. 3, note 2.
• Antahpata, lit. 'falling within or between,' because it stands
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| SR No. | 007678 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 02 |
| 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 |