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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I KÂNDA, 2 KANDIKÂ, 8.
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2. At the time of the division of the inheritance, according to some (teachers).
3. After he has fetched fire from the house of a Vaisya who is rich in cattle,
4. All ceremonies are performed as at the cooking of the kâtushprâsya food.
5. Some (say that) the handing over of the kindling sticks (should take place),
6. Because the Sruti says, 'There are five great sacrifices.'
7. Having cooked a mess of sacrificial food for the deities of the Agnyâdheya, and having sacrificed the two Agya portions, he sacrifices (the following) Âgya oblations :
8. 'Thou, Agni’ (Vâg. Samhitâ XXI, 3); 'Thus
2. Sânkhayana I, 1, 4. 3. Sânkhâyana I, 1, 8.
4. The kâtushprâsya food is prepared, at the time of the setting up of the Srauta fires, for the four chief officiating priests of the Srauta sacrifices. Comp. Satapatha Brâhmana II, 1, 4. Kâtyâyana's corresponding rules with regard to the Adhâna of the Srauta fires are found at IV, 7, 15. 16.
5. Comp.the remarks on this Satra, in the Introduction, pp. 265 seq.
6. Satapatha Brâhmana XI, 5, 6, 1: "There are five great sacrifices which are great Sattras, viz. the sacrifice to living beings, the sacrifice to men, the sacrifice to the Manes, the sacrifice to the gods, the Brahmayagña.' As the Grihya ceremonies are included here under the category of mahayagñas or great sacrifices, they require, according to the teachers whose opinion is stated in Sätra 5, a form of the Agnyâdhana (setting up of the sacred fire) analogous to the Agnyâdhâna of the Srauta ritual, and containing, like that Âdhậna, the act of the Aranipradâna or handing over of the kindling woods (Sutra 5).
7. The deities of the Agnyâdheya, or of the Srauta ceremony corresponding to the Grihya rite here treated of, are Agni pavamâna, Agni pâvaka, Agni suki, Aditi. On the Agyabhagas, see Sânkhayana I, 9, 7, &c.
8. The verses Vâg. Samh. XXI, 3, 4, the two verses quoted
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