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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IV PRAPATHAKA, 6 KÂNDIKA, 14.
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8. (And) the Mahâvyâhritis.
9. The last (verse) is, 'Pragâpati' (MB. II, 5, 8). 10. With the formula, 'I am glory' (MB. II, 5, 9) one who is desirous of glory should worship the sun in the forenoon, at noon, and in the afternoon,
II. Changing (the words), ' of the forenoon' (into ' of the noon,' and 'of the afternoon,' accordingly).
12. Worshipping (the sun) at the time of the morning twilight and of the evening twilight procures happiness, (both times) with (the formula), 'O sun! the ship' (MB. II, 5, 14), and (after that) in the morning with (the formula), 'When thou risest, O sun, I shall rise with thee' (ibid. 15); in the evening with (the formula), 'When thou goest to rest, O sun, I shall go to rest with thee' (ibid. 16).
13. One who desires to gain a hundred cart-loads (of gold), should keep the vow (of fasting) through one fortnight and should on the first day of a dark fortnight feed the Brahmanas with boiled milk-rice prepared of one Kâmsa of rice.
14. At the evening twilight (of every day of that fortnight), having left the village in a westerly direction, and having put wood on the fire at a place where
10. According to the commentary the formula yaso ham bhavâmi comprises five sections; thus it would include the sections II, 5, 9-13 of the Mantra-Brâhmana. The Mantra quoted next by Gobhila (Sutra 12) is really MB. II, 5, 14.
13. Comp. chap. 5, 24-27. One Kâmsa is stated to be a measure equal to one Drona. The more usual spelling is kamsa, and this reading is found in the corresponding passage of the Khâdira-Grthya (IV, 2, 1).
14. As to the meaning of kana ('small grain of rice '), comp. Hillebrandt, Neu- und Vollmondsopfer, p. 32, note I.
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