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.
V, 22), 'At the impulse of the divine Savitri, I take thee with the arms of the Asvins, with the hands of Pashan: thou art a woman.' The significance of this formula is the same (as before). That spade (abhri, fem.) is indeed a female : therefore he says 'thou art a woman.'
5. He draws their outlines, saving the measure of a span, with, 'Here do I cut off the necks of the Rakshas!' For the spade is the thunderbolt: it is with the thunderbolt that he thus cuts off the necks of the Rakshas.
6. Let him first mark off the right (southern) one of the two that are in front; then the left one of the two behind; then the right one of those behind; then the left one of those in front.
7. But they say conversely, that he should mark off first the left one of the two behind; then the right one of those in front; then the right one of those behind; and then the left one of those in front. Or he may also mark them off in one and the same direction : but let him, in any case, mark off last of all the one which is on the left of those in front.
8. He digs them, in the very same order in which they have been marked off, with, 'Thou art great,
sharpened on one side. For a fuller description, see VI, 3, 1, 30 seq.
i Vinâ, i.e. leaving that space between each two adjoining uparavas. They are themselves to be round, a span in diameter. Hence by connecting the four centres by lines, a square of two spans (of thumb and forefinger), or one cubit, is obtained. See Baudh. Sulvas. 101.
? That is, successively the south-eastern, the south-western, the north-western, and last, the north-eastern hole.
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