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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IN KÂNDA, 6 ADHYAYA, I BRÂHMANA, 22.
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20. He then makes (the sacrificer) say, while touching it thus (Våg. S. V, 28), 'Thou art firm: may this sacrificer be firm in this homestead through progeny'-or, 'through cattle!' thus whatever wish he entertains that wish is accomplished unto him.
21. Thereupon, having taken clarified butter with the dipping-spoon, he pours it upon the (forked) top?, with 'O Heaven and Earth, be ye full of ghee!' whereby he endows the heaven and the earth with strength and sap, bestows strength and sap on them : upon them thus full of sap and affording subsistence, these creatures subsist.
22. He then lays on a mat?, with, 'Thou art Indra's mat,'—for the Sadas belongs to Indra,-'a shelter to every one,' for Brâhmans of all families sit therein. He adds two mats, one on each side thereof, and three north of them and three further (to the north): these make nine. For the sacrifice
1 The post is to be furcate at the top, and between the branchstumps (forming as it were its ears) he is to put a piece of gold and pour the ghee thereon; when the ghee reaches the ground, he is to pronounce the final 'Svâhâ l' in accordance with the practice at the homas; the gold representing, as it were, the sacrificial fire. Sâyana on Taitt. S. I, 3, 1; Kâty. VIII, 5, 37 seq.
? That is, after putting up the posts of the front and back doors, and laying the beams on, both longways and crossways, in the same way as was done in erecting the Prâkinavamsa and Havirdhana, he is to spread over the beams the nine mats that are to form the ceiling,- viz. first the middle, and then the two others, of the three southern ones, thereupon three alongside these, across the central part of the shed, and finally the three across the north side. According to some authorities the central mats are laid down first, and then those on the south and north sides. See Sayana on Taitt. S. I, 3, 1 (p. 450).
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