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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III KÂNDA, 8 KANDIKÂ, 3.
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with (the verse), 'From the mountain (on which thou art born), from thy mother, from thy sister, from thy parents and thy brothers, from thy friends I sever thee.
'Run-away servant, I have made water round thee. Having been watered round, where wilt thou go?'
3. Should he run away (nevertheless, his master) should establish a fire that has been taken from a wood that is on fire, and should sacrifice in that fire) Kusa plates (used for protecting the hands when holding a hot sacrificial pan) that have been anointed with ghee, with (the formula), “May the stumbler stumble round thee, .... may he tie thee with Indra's fetter, loosen thee for me, and may he lead another one up (to me).'
4. Then he will quietly remain (in his master's house).
KANDIKÂ 8. 1. The spit-ox (sacrificed to Rudra).
2. It procures (to the sacrificer) heavenly rewards, cattle, sons, wealth, renown, long life.
3. Having taken the sacred domestic fire to the
3. Ukhá yâbhyâm grihyate tâv indvau. Comm. on Kâtyâyana, Sraut. XVI, 4, 2.
In the Mantra I propose to read, pari två hvalano, &c. Nivrittendravirudhah seems to be corrupt; it seems to be a compound of nivritta, a second member which is doubtful, and vîrudh (the plant). The meaning may have been giving it up to consume the plants.'
4. This Satra is word for word identical with chap. 6, 4. 8, 1. Âsvalâyana-Grihya IV, 8. 2. Âsvalâyana, loc. cit. $ 35.
3. The outspreading is the establishing of the three sacred Srauta fires, so that the Grihya fire is considered as the Gârhapatya, and the Ahavanîya and Dakshinâgni are taken from it.
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