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, 7 PATALA, 25 SECTION, I.
rivers, of which the divine Gandharva is possessed, thereby we are concordant.'
7. A woman that has her monthly courses, keeps through a period of three nights the observances prescribed in the Brahmana.
8. In the fourth night (the husband) having sipped water, calls (the wife) who has taken a bath, who wears a clean dress and ornaments, and has spoken with a Brahmana, to himself (with the following verses):
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PATALA 7, SECTION 25.
1. (a) 'May Vishnu make thy womb ready; may Tvashtri frame the shape (of the child); may Pragapati pour forth (the sperm); may Dhâtri give thee conception!
(b) 'Give conception, Sintvâlt; give conception, Sarasvati! May the two Asvins, wreathed with lotus, give conception to thee!
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(c) The embryo which the two Asvins produce with their golden kindling-sticks: that embryo we call into thy womb, that thou mayst give birth to it after ten months.
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(d) As the earth is pregnant with Agni, as the heaven is with Indra pregnant, as Vâyu dwells in the womb of the regions (of the earth), thus I place an embryo into thy womb.
7. Taitt. Samhitâ II, 5, 1, 5. 6: Therefore one should not speak with a woman that has her monthly courses, nor sit together with her, nor eat food that she has given him, &c.
25, 1 (a-c). Rig-veda X, 184, 1-3; comp. S. B. E., vol. xv, p. 221. (d-f). Sânkhâyana-Grihya I, 19. It should be observed that the text of Hiranyakesin has in the beginning of (e) quite the same blunder which is found also in the Sânkhâyana MSS., yasya instead of vyasya.
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