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, 4 BRAHMANA, 7.
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O Vishnu, make wide room for our abode! drink the ghee, thou born of ghee, and speed the lord of the sacrifice ever onwards ! Hail!'
4. He takes the ghee which is left (in the meltingpot). Whatever chopping-knife the carpenter uses, that the carpenter now takes. They then proceed (to the wood). Whatever (tree) they select for the stake,
5. That he touches while muttering (Vâg. S. V, 42),—or he salutes it while standing behind it with his face towards the east,— I have passed over the others, I have not gone nigh the othershe does indeed pass over others and does not go near to others : wherefore he says, 'I have passed over the others, I have not gone nigh the others.'
6. 'Thee have I found on the nearer side of the farther, and on the farther side of the nearer;' he does indeed fell it on the nearer side of the farther, of those that are farther away from it; and 'on the farther side of the nearer,' he says, because he does fell it on the farther side of the nearer, of those that are on this side of it. This is why he says, 'Thee have I found on the nearer side of the farther, and on the farther side of the nearer.'
7. 'Thee do we favour, O divine lord of the forest', for the worship of the gods. As for the good work, he would favour (select) one from amidst many (men) and he (the chosen) would be well-disposed to that work, even so does he now, for the good work, favour that (tree) from amidst many, and it becomes well-disposed to the felling.
1 'Vanaspati' is a common synonym of vriksha, tree.
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