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 ADHYAYA, I BRÂHMANA, 27. 255
with a (Yagus) formula, and thereby it becomes for him supplied with both an invitatory and an offering prayer. And if he desire to exorcise, let him offer some spray (of Soma) which may adhere either to his arm, or to his breast, or to his garment, with, 'O divine plant, let that be true wherefore I pray thee: let N. N. be struck down by destruction falling from above, crash!' Even as one of (enemies) that are being slain might escape, so does this (sprig) fly away from those that are being pressed: thus nothing (hostile)-either running thither or running away!— remains to him for whom he performs this. He deposits that (cup) with, 'Thee for the out-breathing!' for this (graha) indeed is his out-breathing.
27. Now some deposit it on the south part (of the khara ?), for, they say, it is in that direction that
the Upamsu cup is drawn, the Hotri says, Restrain the outbreathing (prâna)! Haill thee, O well-calling one, to Sürya l' whereupon he breathes into (or towards) the cup with, 'O outbreathing, restrain my out-breathing !' After that he remains silent till the Antaryâma is drawn, when he addresses that graha with, Restrain the in-breathing (apâna)! Haill thee, O well-calling one, to Sorya l' whereupon he draws in his breath over the cup, and says, 'O in-breathing, restrain my in-breathing !' He then touches the pressing-stone with, Thee to the through-breathing I' and therewith frees his speech from restraint. Ait. Br. II, 21. On the terms out-breathing (prâna)and in-breathing (apâna, or up-breathing, udâna) see part i, p. 19, note 2; J. S. Speijer, Jâtakarma, p. 64; Sâyana on Taitt. S. I, 4, 3 (vol. I, p. 603); Taitt. S. VI, 4, 6. Different Haug, Ait. Br. Transl. p. 118.
1 Na dhavan nâpadhâvat parisishyate ;' perhaps we ought to read 'nâpadhavan;' unless indeed tasya' refers to Soma, as Sâyana seems to take it. The Kânva text has : tatha ha teshâm napadhâvañs kana mukyate yebhyas tatha karoti.
According to the Satras of the Black Yagus (cf. Sâyana on Taitt. S. I, 4, 2, p. 598), the Upâmsu cup is deposited' on the south-east and the Antaryâma cup on the north-east corner of the
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