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 KÂNDA, 8 ADHYAYA, 5 BRÂHMANA, 9.
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with the tail (of the victim), for the tail is the hindpart, and from the hind-part of woman offspring is produced : hence offspring is produced by the Patnisamyågas being performed with the tail.
7. For the wives of the gods he cuts portions from the inside, since it is from the inside of woman that offspring is produced; for Agni the householder from above, since it is from above that the male approaches the female.
8. Thereupon they betake themselves, with the heart-spit, to the purificatory bath? Now, the anguish of the victim, in being slaughtered, concentrates itself into the heart, and from the heart into the heart-spit; and whatever part of cooked (food) is pierced that becomes palatable? : therefore let him roast it on the spit after piercing it. Uppermost on the thrice-moved (portions of the) victim he places that heart after pulling it off (the spit).
9. He (the slaughterer) then hands the heart-spit (to the Adhvaryu). Let him not throw it on the
first place, throws the first chip of the sacrificial stake into the fire, in accordance with III, 7, 1, 32. For the four Patnîsamyâgas, the deities of which are Soma, Tvashtri, the wives of the gods, and Agni the householder, see part i, p. 256. The first two offerings may consist only of ghee, or, as the last two, of a piece of the tail.
1 The technical term for this purificatory ceremony is salavabhritha, or "spit-bath.' On the present occasion it is not performed (see paragraph 11), but it is inserted here because it forms the conclusion of the ordinary animal offering, not connected with the Soma-sacrifice (nirudha-pasu), as well as of the offering of a sterile cow (termed andbandhyâ) to Mitra and Varuna, which concludes the Soma-sacrifice. See part i, p. 379, note 1, and IV, 5,4 54, 1 seq. 13?)
'? Alamgusha, sufficient for eating,' Sayana; 'sufficient in itself,' St. Petersburg Dict. The Kânva text has the probably preferable reading,-atha alamgusham sritam eva paritrindanti,*they then pierce (with the spit) what is already sufficiently cooked.'
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