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 1942

334
PÂRASKARA-GRIHYA-SUTRA.
clean spot that has been ploughed, so that the crop be not damaged,
7. Or in the village, because (there) both (rice and barley) are united, and because no obstacle is there.
8. Where he intends to cook (the sacrificial food), he establishes the fire on a place that has been smeared (with cowdung), which is elevated, and which has been sprinkled (with water), strews (round the fire) Darbha grass mixed with (stalks of) that (sort of corn to which the sacrifice refers), sacrifices the two Agya portions and Agya oblations (with the following Mantras):
9. `For whom earth and heaven, the intermediate points and the chief points (of the horizon) are veiled with light, that Indra I invoke here. May his weapons be friendly towards us. Svâhâ !
* Whatsoever it be that I wish for at this sacrifice, O killer of Vritra, may all that be fulfilled to me, and may I live a hundred autumns. Svâhâ !
. May success, prosperity, earth, rain, eminence, excellence, luck here protect the creatures. Svâhâ !
'In whose substance dwells the prosperity of all Vedic and worldly works, Indra's wife Sitâ I invoke. May she not abandon me in whatever work I do. Svâhâ !
· Her, who rich in horses, rich in cows, rich in delight indefatigably supports living beings, Urvara (i.e. the field) who is wreathed with threshing-floors, I invoke at this sacrifice, the firm One. May she not abandon me. Svâhâ !'
10. He makes oblations of the cooked sacrificial food to Sitâ, Yagâ (the goddess of sacrifice), Sama (the goddess of zealous devotion), Bhậti (the goddess of welfare).
Digitized by Google