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, 6 ADHYAYA, 3 BRAHMANA, 21.
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here I the men with increase of wealth.' Now Agni and Soma have seized him who consecrates himself between their jaws", for that consecrationoffering belongs to Agni and Vishnu, and Vishnu forsooth is no other than Soma; and he himself that consecrates himself is the food of the gods : thus they have seized him between their jaws, and he now expressly redeems himself from Soma, when he says, 'Now, O divine Soma, hast thou, a god, joined the gods, and here (have I joined) the men with increase of wealth ; '- increase of wealth means abundance : with abundance' he thereby means to say.
20. He then walks out (of the cart-shed), with, Haill I am freed from Varuna's noose!' For he, truly, is in Varuna's noose who is in another's mouth: he now frees himself from Varuna's noose, when he says, 'Hail! I am freed from Varuna's noose.
21. He then puts a kindling-stick on the Åhavaniya in this way, 'O Agni, protector of vows, on thee, O protector of vows-' for Agni is lord of vows to the gods, wherefore he says, 'O Agni, protector of vows, on thee, O protector of vows''what bodily form of thine hath been on me, (may) that (be) on thee; what bodily form of mine has been on thee, (may) that (be) here on me! Our vows, O lord of vows, (have been performed) rightly: the lord of consecration hath
· See III, 3, 4, 21.
• Thus (iti), viz. with the following modifications of the corresponding formula, used at the intermediary consecration,' III, 4, 3, 9. Perhaps iti' may mean 'th us,' i. e. while still keeping his fingers turned in; or, it may mean 'as such' (as a free man).
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