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.
thereby visibly in this world; but whichever of them are assigned they are thereby visibly in yonder world.
24. They have two names; for, in truth, they themselves insisted thereon, saying, 'We have not prospered with these names, since Soma has been taken away from us; well, then, let us take each a second name!' They took each a second name, and therewith prospered, inasmuch as they from whom the Soma-draught had been taken had a share in the sacrifice assigned to them; hence they have two names. Wherefore let a Brahman, if he prosper not, take a second name, for verily he prospers, whosoever, knowing this, takes a second name.
25. Now what he offers in the fire, that he offers unto the gods, thereby the gods exist; and what (Soma) is consumed in the Sadas, that he offers unto men, thereby men exist; and in that the Nârâsamsa? (cups of Soma) stand with the Somacarts, thereby he offers unto the Fathers, thereby the Fathers exist.
26. But those creatures which are not admitted to the sacrifice are forlorn ; wherefore he now admits to the sacrifice those creatures here on earth that are not forlorn; behind the men are the beasts; and behind the gods are the birds, the plants, and
1 Narasamsa, 'pertaining to Narasamsa (man's praise, i.e. Agni, or Soma, or the Fathers),' is the name given to certain remains of Soma-libations (or potations) sacted to the Fathers, which, in the · nine Soma-cups, are temporarily deposited under the axle of the
southern Soma-cart, till they are drunk by the priests at the end of the libation.
? Or, alongside of, corresponding to, included in, them (anu).
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