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, 7 ADHYÂYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 8.
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ungirt during that night. Thus there would be an offence, since it is for the victim that the stake is set up, and the victim is (only) slaughtered on the next morning : let him therefore set up (the others) on the next morning.
5. Let him first set up that (stake) which stands (immediately) north of the one opposite the fire, then the one on the south, then a northern one, - last of all the one on the southern flank: thus it (the row of stakes) inclines to the north.
6. But they also say conversely?, 'Let him first set up that which is south of the one opposite the fire, then the northern one, then a southern one,last of all the one on the northern flank: and thus indeed his work attains completion towards the north.'
7. Let the largest be the one forming the southern flank; then shorter and shorter; and the one forming the northern flank the shortest : thus (the row of stakes) inclines to the north.
8. Thereupon they set up the wife-stake for the wives. It is for the sake of completeness, forsooth, that the wife-stake is set up: there they seize (and bind) the victim for Tvashtri, for Tvashtri fashions the cast seed, and hence he fashions the seed now cast. It (the victim to Tvashtri) is an animal with testicles, for such a one is a begetter. Let him not slay that one, but let him set it free after fire has been carried round it. Were he to slay it, there would assuredly be an end to offspring, but in this way he sets free the offspring. Therefore let him not
1 The Kanva text first mentions the practice set forth in the preceding paragraph, as the teaching of some,' but then rejects it in favour of the second alternative.
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