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.
the heaven. And that same pervading power Vishnu, the sacrifice, obtains by his strides for this (sacrificer) when he sacrifices: this is why he performs the Vaisargina offerings.
4. In the afternoon, having covered the altar (with sacrificial grass), and handed (to the sacrificer and his wife) one half of the fast-milk, they enter (the hall), put fire-wood on', and prepare the underlayer (of gravel). He (the Adhvaryu) puts the butter on the old Gârhapatya), and cleans the spoons. The sacrificer takes the king (Soma) on his lap. He (the Adhvaryu) scatters about the (dust of the) foot-print of the Soma-cow behind the (new) Gârhapatya for the sake of a firm standing, for it is with the foot that one stands firmly.
5. Now some divide it (the dust) into four parts? : one fourth part (they put) into the underlayer whereon they take up the Ahavaniya (for transferring it to the high altar); with one fourth part they anoint the axle ; one fourth part (they put) into this underlayer (for taking out the Ågnfdhriya fire); and one fourth part he scatters about behind the Gârhapatya.
6. But let him not do this ; let him rather scatter it about entirely behind the Gârhapatya. Having then purified the ghee, he takes thereof four ladlings (with the sruva), both in the guhd and in the upabhrit; and clotted ghee: in five ladlings, with (Vâg.
· Viz. on the Âhavanîya of the Prâkînavamsa (hall) now serving as the Gârhapatya, and generally called sâlâdvarya, i.e. the one near the (front or eastern) hall-door.
? See p. 121, note 2.
• Prishad-agya (lit. mottled butter) is clarified butter mixed with sour milk.
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