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, 4 BRÂHMANA, 10.
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he verily succeeds only in the deed sped by the Brâhman.
7. Now he draws (the Maitra-varuna graha) from that (stream of Soma)!, with (Vág. S. VII, 9; Rig-veda II, 41, 4), “This Soma, O Mitra and Varuna, hath been pressed for you; ye holy, now hear my cry!—Thou art taken with a support?!—Thee for Mitra and Varuna!'
8. He mixes it with milk. The reason why he mixes it with milk is this. Soma, forsooth, was Vritra. Now when the gods slew him, they said to Mitra, 'Thou also slayest!' But he liked it not and said, 'Surely, I am every one's friend (mitra): being no friend, I shall become an enemy (or, other than Mitra, Amitra).'—'Then we shall exclude thee from the sacrifice !—Then said he, ‘I, too, slay!' Thereupon the cattle went from him, saying, 'Being a friend, he has become an enemy!' Thus he was deprived of the cattle. By mixing (the Soma) with milk, the gods then supplied him with cattle; and in like manner does this (priest) now supply him (the sacrificer or Mitra) with cattle by mixing (the Soma) with milk.
9. As to this they say, 'Surely he liked it not to slay!' Thus, what milk there is in this (mixture) that belongs to Mitra, but the Soma belongs to Varuna : therefore one mixes it with milk.
10. He mixes it with (Våg. S. VII, 10; Rig-veda IV, 42, 10), ‘May we delight in the wealth we have gained, the gods in the offering, the kine in pasture! that unfailing milch cow,
See p. 256, note 1. For the shape of this cup, see IV, 1, 5, 19.
* See IV, 1, 2, 6, and note.
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