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.
forming the sacrifice, they indeed assign the priestly offices. 'Great is the praise of the divine Savitri; Hail!' Thus he offers to Savitri for his impulsion.
13. Having then taken ghee a second time in four ladlings, he walks out (of the hall by the front door). The (sacrificer's) wife is led out by the south door. He then lays down a piece of gold in the right wheeltrack of the southern Soma-cart, and offers thereon, with (Våg. S. V, 15; Rig-veda I, 22, 17), 'Vishnu strode through this(universe), thrice he put down his foot:itis enveloped in his dust; Hail!' The residue (of ghee) he pours into the wife's hand. She anoints the burning (part) of the axle 1 with (Vâg. S. V, 17), 'Audible to the gods, announce ye unto the gods!' He hands to his assistant both the offering-spoon and the melting-pot. They lead the wife round by the back of the two fires.
14. Having taken ghee in four ladlings, the assistant lays down a piece of gold in the right wheeltrack of the northern Soma-cart, and offers thereon, with (Vág. S. V, 16; Rig-veda VII, 99, 3), 'Be ye too abundant in food and milch kine and pastures, through benevolence to man! Thou proppedst asunder these two worlds, O Vishnu; with beams of light didst thou hold fasts the earth on all sides; Hail!' The residue (of ghee) he pours into the wife's hand. She anoints the burning (part) of the axle with,
1 That is, the iron pins driven into the axle, round which the naves of the wheels revolve. See also p. 121, note 2.
? They make her enter the hall by the south door and walk round by the back of the (old) Gârhapatya fire-place to the wheeltracks on the north side where the Pratiprasthatri is about to offer.
& The rays of the sun are apparently likened to ropes wherewith he keeps the earth straight and firm,
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