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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IV KÂNDA, I ADIIYÂY.1, I BRÂHMANA, 22.
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the Rakshas roams rootless and unfettered on both sides, even as man here roams along the air, rootless and unfettered on both sides ? ; and, that formula being the Brahman (prayer), a slayer of the Rakshas, he, by means of that Brahman, renders the air free from danger and injury.
21. Thereupon he (the Sacrificer) asks a boon. For the gods, forsooth, greatly desire to obtain the offering of that graha, and they grant to him that boon, in order that he may forthwith offer that graha to them: this is why he asks a boon.
22. He (the Adhvaryu) offers with (Vâg. S.VII, 3), Self-made thou art,' for, this graha being his (Yagña's) out-breathing, it is indeed made by itself, born of itself 2: hence he says, 'Self-made thou art;'for all powers, divine and earthly,'—for it is born of itself for all creatures 3 ;—May the mind obtain thee!'—the mind being Pragâpati, he thereby means to say, 'may Pragâpati obtain thee!' Haill thee, O well-born, for Suryal' thus he utters the second
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along the wide air,' and offers, while the sacrificer holds on to him from behind, with, Haill thee, O well-born, to Sarya!'
i See III, 1, 3, 13.
9. For this libation is the out-breathing, and the out-breathing is he that blows yonder (the wind); and he indeed is made by himself, begotten (gâta) of himself, since there is no other maker nor begetter of him.' Kânva text.
Perhaps we ought to translate the passage, 'from all the powers, divine and earthly,' for it is born by itself from all the creatures. But cf. Taitt. S. VI, 4, 5: Thereby he puts out-breathing both into gods and men.'
• While, in its force of subsequent,'avara here refers back to the first Svâhâ, pronounced by the Adhvaryu (par. 19); it also has here the meaning of lower,' and, developed out of this, that of preceding' in which meaning it occurs in the Rikprâtisâkhya). Hence it is quite impossible adequately to render this play on the words avara, 'subsequent, lower, preceding,' and para,'higher, subsequent.'
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