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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I ADHYAYA, II KHANDA, 2.
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7. '(An oblation is called) HUTA, (if made) by the performing of the Agnihotra; AHUTA (i.e. unsacrificed, if) by the Bali offering; PRAHUTA (i.e. sacrificed up, if) by a sacrifice to the Manes; PRÂSITA (i.e. tasted, if) deposited as an offering in a Brahmana.
8. Without raising his knees, with spread knees let him always offer his oblation ; for the gods never accept an offering (that has been made holding the hand) not between (the knees).
9. But when he has repeated a text sacred to Rudra, to the Rakshas, to the Manes, to the Asuras, or that contains an imprecation, let him touch water, and so also when he has touched his own body.'
KHANDA 11. 1. Now when the bride is to be carried away (to the bridegroom's house) that night, or on the next, or on the third night,
2. On that night, when (the darkness of) night is gone, they wash the girl up to her head with (water that has been made fragrant by) all sorts of herbs and the choicest fruits together with scents;
7. Comp. chap. 5, 1.
8. Comp. the Grihya-samgraha-parisishta I, 46, and the note, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenl. Gesellschaft, XXXV, 556. Narayana : dakshinam båhum gânvor antare kritvety arthah, sarvadå sarvasminn api karmani havir homadravyam guhuyât.
9. This verse is found also in the Karmapradîpa III, 8, 4.
11, 1. The ceremony described in this chapter is called Indrânîkarman. The goddess Indrani is mentioned in Sätra 4 among the deities to whom Âgya oblations are made.
2. Nisâkâle, nisâ madhyastham praharadvayam, tasmin kâle atîte. Narayana.
On the anvārambha, comp. Weber's Indische Studien, IX, 224.
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