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.
there, now the wind tosses it, that I see;' this is nothing else than the rope.
6. Suparnt then said, 'Come, let us now fly thither to know which of us is the winner.' Kadrů said, 'Fly thou thither; thou wilt tell us, which of us is the winner.'
7. Suparni then flew thither; and it was even as Kadrů had said. When she had returned, she (Kadrų) said to her, 'Hast thou won, or I ?'
-Thou!' she replied. Such is the story. called 'Suparni-Kâdrava?'
8. Then said Kadrų, · Verily I have won thine own self; yonder is Soma in the heaven: fetch him hither for the gods, and thereby redeem thyself from the gods?!'-'So be it!' She brought forth the metres; and that Gayatri fetched Soma from heaven.
9. He was enclosed between two golden cups : ; sharp-edged they closed together at every twinkling of the eye; and these two, forsooth, were Consecration and Penance. Those Gandharva Soma-wardens watched over him; they are these hearths, these fire-priests.
10. She tore off one of the two cups, and gave it to the gods,—this was Consecration: therewith the gods consecrated themselves.
1 And because these two there disputed, therefore the story called “Sauparnakâdrava” is here told,' Kânva text. It is difficult to see how this statement came to be inserted here, unless it be because of a division in the text,--this paragraph being the nineteen hundreth in the Madhyandina recension. This explanation would not, however, apply to the Kanva text.
9 Therewith redeem thee from death,' Kânva rec.
• Kusî ?=kosi, pod' (or case). Sâyana explains it by 'âyudha' (? weapon, or vessel, sheath).
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