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III KÂNDA, 7 ADHYAYA, I BRÂHMANA, 25.
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thee! may riches enfold this sacrificer among men!' He invokes a blessing on the sacrificer, when he says, “May riches enfold this sacrificer among men.'
22. Thereupon he inserts a chip of the stake (under the rope) with, 'Thou art the son of the sky. For it is doubtless the offspring of that (sacrificial stake); hence if there be the full number of eleven stakes?, let him insert in each its own (chip) without confounding them; and his offspring is born orderly and not foolish. But whosoever inserts them in confusion, not its own in each, verily his offspring is born disorderly and foolish ; therefore let him insert its own in each without confounding them.
23. Moreover, that chip of the stake is made an ascent to the heavenly world; there is this girdlerope; after the rope the chip of the stake; after the chip of the stake the top-ring; and from the top-ring one reaches the heavenly world.
24. And as to why it is called svaru ('very sore'),--that (chip) is cut off from that (stake), and thus is its own (sva) sore (arus); therefore it is called 'svaru.'
25. With that part of it which is dug in, he gains the world of the Fathers; and with what is above the dug-in part, up to the girdle-rope, he gains the world of men; and with what is above the rope, up to the top-ring, he gains the world of the gods; and what (space of) two or three fingers' breadths
1 When, instead of a single he-goat to Agni, eleven victims are slaughtered, they are either bound to one stake each, or all to one and the same. See III, 9, 1, 4 seq. The chip alluded to is one of those obtained in rough-hewing the stake and making it eightcornered.
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| SR No. | 007678 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 02 |
| 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 |