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.
FOURTH KÂNDA.
First Adhyâya. First BRÂHMANA.
1. The Upâmsu (graha), forsooth, is the outbreathing of the Sacrifice 1, the Upâmsu-savana (press-stone) the through-breathing, and the Antaryâma (graha) the in-breathing.
2. Now as to why it is called Upâmsu. There is a graha called Amsu ?, that is Pragâpati : his outbreathing is this (graha); and because it is his outbreathing, therefore it is called Upâmsu.
3. This (graha) he draws without a strainer 3 : whereby he puts the out-breathing into him as one tending away from him, and thus this forward-tending out-breathing of his streams forth from him. He purifies it with sprigs of Soma, thinking it shall be pure.' He purifies it with six (sprigs), for there are six seasons: it is by means of the seasons that he thus purifies it.
4. As to this they say, When he purifies the Upâmsu by means of sprigs, and all (other) Soma
i That is, the sacrificial man, or the sacrifice personified in Soma and the sacrificer.
· Lit. 'the Soma-plant,' hence the (Soma)-sacrifice itself, or Pragâpati. See IV, 6, 1, 1 seq.
* Bahishpavitrât, lit. from (a vessel, or Soma) having the strainer outside (away from) it. While no proper strainer is used for the Upâmsu-graha, the Soma-juice being poured through Soma-plants (see p. 244, note 2); at the great pressing it is passed through a fringed straining-cloth (dasapavitra) spread over the Dronakala sa (the largest of the three Soma-troughs, the others being the Adhavaniya and Patabhrit). See IV, 1, 2, 3.
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