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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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
he chooses, saying, “Verily, Agni is the leader of the divine hosts,' for Agni is the head of the deities; wherefore he says, “Verily, Agni is the leader of the divine hosts ;'—'this sacrificer of the human;' for that community wherein he sacrifices is behind (inferior to) him ; wherefore he says, • This sacrificer (is the head) of the human.' 'May the household of these two shine brightly, not (like a cart yoked) with one bullock, for a hundred winters,-two yoke-fellows!' whereby he means to say, “May their household matters be free from calamities for a hundred years?' :
11. “Uniting blessings, not uniting bodies;' whereby he means to say, 'Unite ye your blessings only, but not also your bodies ;' for were they also to unite their bodies, Agni (the fire) would burn the sacrificer. Now when this one sacrifices in the fire, he gives gifts to Agni; and whatever blessing the priests here invoke upon the sacrificer, all that Agni accomplishes. Thus they unite only their blessings, but not also their bodies : wherefore he says,‘Uniting blessings, not uniting bodies.'
Eighth Adhyâya. FIRST BRÂHMANA.
C. THE OBLATIONS 1. Thereupon the Hotri, having sat down on the Hotri's seat whereon he sits down after being chosen”, held while he was consecrated, and has, at the instance of the Adhvaryu, to call on the Hotri for the offering-prayers,—his summons (praisha) beginning with Hotâ yakshat, 'let the Hotri worship (or, pronounce the offering-prayer)...,' and occasionally himself to pronounce the invitatory prayer.
1 See I, 9, 3, 19.
* Viz. at the north-west corner (or left hip) of the altar. For the formulas used by him, see I, 5, 1, 24-2, 1.
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