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 ADHYAYA, IO KANDIKÂ, 6.
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water without interruption, with the three verses, 'O waters, ye are wholesome' (Rig-veda X, 9, 1 seqq.).
9. In the middle of the house he should cook a mess of food, sacrifice (therefrom) with the four verses, 'Vâstoshpati, accept us' (Rig-veda VII, 54, I seqq.), verse by verse, should prepare food, should give to the Brahmanas to eat, and should cause them to say, 'Lucky is the ground! Lucky is the ground!'
KANDIKA 10.
I. It has been declared how he should enter the house (when returning from a journey).
2. The house, when he enters it, should be provided with seed-corn.
3. He should have his field ploughed under the Nakshatras Uttarâh Proshthapadâs, (Uttarâh) Phâlgunyas, or Rohini.
4. In order that the wind may blow to him from the field, he should offer oblations with the hymn, 'Through the lord of the field' (Rig-veda IV, 57), verse by verse, or he should murmur (that hymn).
5. He should speak over the cows when they go away, the two verses, 'May refreshing wind blow over the cows' (Rig-veda X, 169, I seq.).
6. When they come back, (he should recite the following verses,)
'May they whose udder with its four holes is full
9. Comp. above, chap. 3, 13.
10, 1. See Srauta-sûtra II, 5, 17 seqq. It is there expressly stated that these rules refer also to an Anâhitâgni.
3. Sânkhâyana IV, 13, 1.
5. Sânkhâyana-Grihya III, 9.
6. Sânkhâyana, loc. cit.-Should the reading upa maitu be corrected into upa maita?
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