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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IV ADHYAYA, 3 KHANDA, 1.
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(of food) into the fire, nor (do) the Visve devas (take part in this ceremony). "Relished ?'—thus are they to be asked whether they are satiated. "May it approach (the fathers),' instead of imperishable.'
6. 'Be satisfied,' when sending them away. 7. Thus through one year, when one has died. 8. And (then) omission of the fourth one.
KHANDA 3. 1. Now (follows) the Sapindlkarana (i.e. reception of a dead person into the community of Pindaofferings with the other Manes).
that it must take place at the Pârvana Sraddha' (Når.). According to Råmakandra's Paddhati he shall say to the Brâhmanas, 'I will invite hither the fathers;' and when they give their consent, he invites them with Rig-veda X, 16, 12. Comp. Yâgñavalkya I, 232 seq., &c. Regarding the Visve devâs comp. the note on chap. 1, 2; as to the triptaprasna (the question whether they are satiated) comp. Manu III, 251 ; Yâgñ. I, 240. At the Pârvana Sraddha, after the Brahmanas have finished their dinner and rinsed their mouths, and after the Pindas have been offered, the sacrificer says,
May what has been given at this Sraddha to our father N. N., who belongs to the gotra N.N., be imperishable !' (comp. Yâgñ. I, 242.) This phrase is to be altered at the Ekoddishta Sraddha in the way indicated in this Satra.
8. After the Ekoddish/a Sraddha has been performed for a dead person during the first year after his death, he is to be admitted, by the Sapindikarana ceremony, among the other Manes, and receives thenceforward his Pinda together with them at the ordinary Pârvana Sraddha. As the ritual of this Sraddha requires that the number of the 'fathers' worshipped should be three, the accession of a new person makes necessary the omission of the pra-prapitâmaha, who has now become fourth among the fathers.
3, 1. It appears to me that this whole chapter is a later addition to the original text. The last Sätra of the preceding chapter, treating of the omission of the fourth father,' which forms, as shown in the preceding note, a consequence of the Sapindikarana,
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