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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ASVALÂVANA-GRIHYA-SOTRA.
24. (Only) if there are no kidneys, according to some (teachers).
25. Having distributed the whole (animal), limb by limb (placing its different limbs on the corresponding limbs of the deceased), and having covered it with its hide, he recites, when the Pranita water is carried forward, (the verse), · Agni, do not overturn this cup' (Rig-veda X, 16, 8).
26. Bending his left knee he should sacrifice Ágya oblations into the Dakshina fire with (the formulas), "To Agni svâhâ ! To Kama svâhâ ! To the world svâhâ ! To Anumati svâhâ !'
27. A fifth (oblation) on the chest of the deceased with the formula), 'From this one verily thou hast been born. May he now be born out of thee, N. N.! To the heaven-world svâhâ !'
KANDIKÂ 4. 1. He gives order, 'Light the fires together.'
2. If the Âhavaniya fire reaches the body) first, he should know, 'It has reached him in the heavenworld. He will live there in prosperity, and so will this one, i. e. his son, in this world.'
3. If the Gârhapatya fire reaches (the body) first, he should know, 'It has reached him in the airworld. He will live there in prosperity, and so will this one, i. e. his son, in this world.'
24. I. e. if there is no Anustaranî animal, which is considered as optional (see chap. 2, 4).
25. Comp. Kâtyâyana XXV, 7, 35.
27. He who is born out of the deceased, is Agni. See Satapatha Brâhmana II, 3, 3, 5; and also XII, 5, 2, 15.
4, 2. Satapatha Brâhmana XII, 5, 2, 10. 3. Satapatha Brahmana l. 1. $ 9.
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