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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I PRASNA, I PATALA, 3 SECTION, II.
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Thou, Agni' (Taitt. Samh. II, 5, 12, 3),
Thus thou, Agni' (Taitt. Samh., loc. cit.), • Thou, Agni, art quick. Being quick, appointed (by us in our mind (as our messenger), thou who art quick, carriest the offering (to the gods). O quick one, bestow medicine on us ! Svâhâ !'—and finally) the (verse),
Pragàpati !' (Taitt. Samh. I, 8, 14, 2). 7. (With the verse), 'What I have done too much in this sacrifice, or what I have done here deficiently, all that may Agni Svishtakrit, he who knows it, make well sacrificed and well offered for me. To Agni Svishtakrit, the offerer of well-offered (sacrifices), the offerer of everything, to him who makes us succeed in our offerings and in our wishes, svâhâ !' --he offers (the Svishtakrit oblation) over the easterly part of the northerly part (of the fire), separated from the other oblations.
8. Here some add as subordinate oblations, before the Svishtakrit, the Gaya, Abhyâtâna, and Rashtrabhrit (oblations).
9. The Gaya (oblations) he sacrifices with (the thirteen Mantras), “Thought, svåhå! Thinking, svâhâ !'- or, To thought svâhâ ! To thinking svâhâ !' (&c.);
10. The Abhyâtâna (oblations) with (the eighteen Mantras), · Agni is the lord of beings; may he protect me'(&c.).
11. (The words), 'In this power of holiness, in
7. Âsvalâyana-Grihya1,10,23; Satapatha Brahmana XIV,9,4,24. 8. Comp. the next Satras and Paraskara I, 5, 7-10. 9. Taittirîya Samhitâ III, 4, 4. 10. Taittirîya Samhita III, 4, 5. 11. See the end of the section quoted in the last note.
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