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

Page 1933

II KÂNDA, 12 KANDIKÂ, 4.
325
10. After having studied five months and a half, they should celebrate the Utsarga,
11. Or six months and a half.
12. They then mutter this Rik: 'Ye two young sages! The relation which has expired among us, the friendship we dissolve, (turning away) from the condition of friendship.'
13. After having remained together through a period of three nights, they separate.
KANDIKÂ 12. 1. In (the month) Pausha, under (the Nakshatra) Rohini, or at the middle Ashtakâ let them celebrate the conclusion of the study (of the Veda).
2. Let them go to the brink of water and make water oblations to the gods, the metres, the Vedas, the Rishis, the ancient teachers, the Gandharvas, the other teachers, the year with its divisions, and to their own ancestors and teachers.
3. After having four times quickly recited the Sâvitri, they should say, 'We have finished.'
4. Interruption (of the study) and (continuation of the) teaching as stated above.
12. The reading of the Mantra is doubtful. I think it should stand as Professor Stenzler has printed it, except that I should propose to correct yuvâ into yuvânâ (comp. Asvalâyana-Srauta VI, 12, 12). It is probable that the gods addressed are the two Asvins, who are called kavi and yuvânâ in several passages of the Vedas.
12, 1. See Âsvalâyana-Gríhya III, 5, 20; Sânkhâyana-Gríhya IV, 6. On the three Ashtakâs, see below, III, 3, 1.
4. Sânkhayana-Grihya IV, 5, 17, where the same expression kshapana for interruptions of the study is used. The words 'as above' refer to chap. 10, 23. 24.
Digitized by Google