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.
is threefold and nine also is threefold: for this reason there are nine.
23. That Sadas has its tie-beams running (from south) to north, and the cart-shed (from west) to east. For this, the cart-shed, belongs exclusively to the gods : hence neither food nor drink is taken therein, because it belongs exclusively to the gods; and were any one either to eat or to drink therein, his head would verily burst asunder. But those two, the Agnidhra and the Sadas, are common (to the gods and men): hence food and drink is taken in these two, because they are common (to the gods and men). Now the north is the quarter of men : therefore the Sadas has its tie-beams running (from south) to north.
24. They enclose it?, with the text (Vâg. S. V, 29; Rig-veda I, 10, 12), “May these songs encompass thee on every side, O thou that delightest in songs! May these favours be favourably received by thee, invigorating the vigorous!' He that delights in songs, forsooth, is Indra, and songs mean the people: he thus surrounds the nobility with the people, and therefore the nobility is here surrounded on both sides by the people.
25. Thereupon he sews (the hurdles to the posts) with a needle and cord ?, with the text (Vâg. S. V, 30), 'Thou art Indra's sewer.' With, “Thou art Indra's fixed (point),' he then makes a knot, lest it should fall asunder. He undoes it again, when the work is completed; and thus disease befalls not either the Adhvaryu or the Sacrificer. When completed, he
1 Viz. with hurdles, or upright grass-mats, fastened to the doorposts by means of cord.
? See III, 5, 3, 25.
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