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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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
as knowing the sacrifice!' whereby he means to say, 'May the (pressing) stones hear this (prayer) of mine, may they vouchsafe it to me;' and 'as knowing the sacrifice,' he says, because the stones are indeed knowing? May the divine Savitri hear my prayer, Hail.!' whereby he means to say, 'May the divine Savitri hear this (prayer) of mine, may he vouchsafe it to me;' for Savitri is the impeller of the gods; impelled by him he goes for that sap of the sacrifice.
15. Having then a second time taken ghee by four ladlings, he says, while going forth towards the north, 'Summon the waters!' whereby he means to say, 'Desire the waters, O Hotar!' The reason why the Hotri then recites 2 is this : by that
1 The text has rather to be construed, 'Ye stones, hear (my prayer) as (of one) knowing the sacrifice.'
While the Adhvaryu and assistants go to the water to fill the Ekadhana pitchers, the Hotri recites the so-called A ponaptriya hymn (Rig-veda X, 30) to the waters, omitting verse twelve, which was already recited as the opening verse of the morning-prayer. The first verse is recited thrice, and the tenth verse is recited after the eleventh, while the priests are returning with the water. As soon as they are in sight, the Hotri recites verse 13, followed by Rig-veda V, 43,1; and (when the Ekadhana and Vasatîvarî waters meet together, paragraph 29) Rig-veda II, 35, 3; and, in case some of the water is actually poured over into the Hotri's cup, I, 83, 2. When the water is brought to the Havirdhana, the Hotri addresses the Adhvaryu as stated in paragraph 31; whereupon he pronounces a nigada' (for which see Ait. Br. II, 20; Âsv. Sr. V, 1, 14-17), followed by Rig-veda I, 23,16; while the Ekadhana pitchers are carried past him. The water in the Maiträvaruna cup and one third of both the Vasativari and Ekadhanâ water having been poured into the Adhavanîya trough (standing on the northern cart), the pitchers with the remaining water are then deposited in their respective places behind the axle of the northern cart, whereupon the Hotri recites the two remaining verses (14 and 15) of the
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