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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GRIHYA-SOTRA OF HIRANYAKESIN.
sons have become fathers; do not destroy us before we have reached (our due) age.'
End of the First Patala.
PraSNA I, PATALA 2, SECTION 5. 1. "To him who comes (to us), we have come. Drive ye away death! May we walk with him safely; may he walk here in bliss ; (may he) walk in bliss until (he returns) to his house '—this (verse the teacher repeats) while (the boy) walks round the fire so as to keep his right side turned towards it.
2. (The teacher) then causes him to say, 'I have come hither to be a student. Initiate me! I will be a student, impelled by the god Savitri.'
3. (The teacher then) asks hiin : 4. What is thy name?' 5. He says, 'N. N!'—what his name is.
6. (The teacher says), ' Happily, god Savitri, may I attain the goal with this N. N.-here he pronounces (the student's) two names.
7. With (the verse), 'For bliss may the goddesses afford us their protection ; may the waters afford drink to us. With bliss and happiness may they overflow us'- both wipe themselves off.
5, 1. I read, pra su mrityum yuyotana; comp. Mantra-Brâhmana 1, 6, 14 (Rig-veda I, 136, 1, &c.). As to the last Pada, comp. Rigveda III, 53, 20.
2 seq. Comp. Gobhila II, 10, 21 seq.; Pâraskara II, 2, 6; Sânkhâyana II, 2, 4, &c.
5. Mâtridatta, As it is said below, "he pronounces his two names" (Satra 6), the student should here also pronounce his two names, for instance, “I am Devadatta, Kârttika."
6. His common (vyavahârika) name and his Nakshatra name.' Matridatta.
7. Rig-veda X, 9, 4.
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