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 PRAPÂTHAKA, 3 KÂNDIKÂ, 16.
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course of the sun (they wait) one night with one day before and one day after it,
11. (Or they interrupt their study for) a period of three nights before and afterwards, according to some (teachers).
12. And both times water libations are offered to the Akaryas.
13. Some perform the Upakarana on the fullmoon day of Sravana and wait (with studying) the time (from that day) till the day sacred to Savitri (Stra 9).
14. On the full-moon day of Taisha they leave off (studying the Veda).
15. They should go out of the village in an easterly or northerly direction, should go to water which reaches higher than to their secret parts, should touch water in the way prescribed above, I, 2), and should satiate the metres, the Rishis, and teachers (by libations of water).
16. After this second Upâkarana, until the (chief) Upåkarana (has been performed) again for the Vedic texts, an interruption of the study (of the Veda takes place), if clouds rise.
12. Regarding the Tarpana ceremony comp. Sankhayan I note. From the word ' and 'the commentator concludes that the libations are offered not only to the Akaryas, but also to the Rishis, &c. (Satra 15).
13. Comp. Gautama XVI, 1 ; Vasishtha XIII, 1 ; Âpastamba I, 9, 1, &c.
14. Apastamba I, 9, 2, &c.
15. This is a description of the Utsarga ceremony; comp. Sänkhayana IV, 6, 6; Asvalâ yana III, 5, 21-23; Pâraskara II, 12.
16. The most natural way of interpreting the text would be, in my opinion, to assume that the second Upakarana' (pratyupakarana) is identical with the Utsarga. The second Upakarana thus would in the same time conclude the first term for studying the
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