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, IO KANDIKA, 25.
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sacrifices the other) Havis, or more to the west, finishing (the oblations) in the east or in the north. 18. To the north-east the oblation to (Agni) Svishtakrit.
19. He cuts off (the Avadâna portions) from the Havis from the middle and from the eastern part;
20. From the middle, the eastern part and the western part (the portions have to be cut off) by those who make five Avadânas;
21. From the northern side the portion for Svishtakrit.
22. Here he omits the second pouring (of Âgya) over (what is left of) the sacrificial food.
23. 'What I have done too much in this ceremony, or what I have done here too little, all that may Agni Svishtakrit, he who knows it, make well sacrificed and well offered for me. To Agni Svishtakrit, to him who offers the oblations for general expiation, so that they are well offered, to him who makes us succeed in what we desire! Make us in all that we desire successful! Svâhâ!'
24. He pours out the full vessel on the Barhis. 25. This is the Avabhritha.
19, 20. See above, the note on I, 7, 9 about the Avadâna portions and the peculiar custom of the descendants of Gamadagni with regard to them.
22. Comp. above, I, 7, 10. 'Here' means, at the Svish/akrit
oblation.
23. Comp. Pâraskara I, 2, 11; Satapatha Brahmana XIV, 9, 4, 24. On the oblations for general expiation (sarvaprâyaskittâhuti) comp. Sânkh.-Grihya I, 9, 12, and the note.
24. 'A full vessel which has been put down before, he should now pour out on the Barhis.' Nârâyana.
25. This pouring out of the vessel holds here the place of the Avabhritha bath at the end of the Soma sacrifice. See Weber, Indische Studien, X, 393 seq.
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