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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II ADHYÂYA, I KANDIKÂ, 9.
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Adhyâya II, KANDIKÂ 1. 1. On the full moon day of the Srâvana month the Sravana ceremony (is performed).
2. Having filled a new jug with flour of fried barley, he lays (this jug) and a spoon for offering the Balis on new strings of a carrying pole (and thus suspends them).
3. Having prepared fried barley grains, he smears half of them with butter.
4. After sunset he prepares a mess of cooked food and a cake in one dish and sacrifices (the cooked food) with the four verses, ' Agni, lead us on a good path to wealth' (Rig-veda I, 189, i seqq.), verse by verse, and with his hand the (cake) in one dish with (the formula), “To the steady One, the earth-demon, svâhâ !'
5. (The cake) should be (entirely) immersed (into the butter), or its back should be visible.
6. With (the verse), 'Agni, do not deliver us to evil' (Rig-veda I, 189, 5) he sacrifices over it (the butter) in which it had lain.
7. With (the verse), May the steeds at our invocation be for a blessing to us' (Rig-veda VII, 38, 7) (he sacrifices) the besmeared grains with his joined hands.
8. The other (grains) he should give to his people. 9. Out of the jug he fills the spoon with flour,
1, 1. Nârâyana's observation that the Sravana full moon can fall also under certain other Nakshatras than Sravana itself, furnishes no reason why we should think here of solar months, as Prof. Stenzler proposes. 7, 8. See above, Satra 3.
9. See above, Sûtra 1.
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