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-BRÂHMANA.
O Mitra and Varuna, grant ye unto us day by day!'-with 'This is thy womb: thee for truth and life?!' he deposits it. Now as to why he says, 'Thee for truth and life,'--the truth is Mitra ?, since Mitra is the Brahman, and the truth is the Brahman (sacerdotium or sacred writ);and life is Varuna, since Varuna is the year, and life is the year : therefore he says, 'This is thy womb : thee for truth and life!'.
FIFTH BRAHMANA.
1. The Åsvina graha-, forsooth, is his organ of hearing; hence in drinking it he turns (the cup) all round", since with that ear of his he hears all round.—Now when the Bhrigus, or the Angiras, attained the heavenly world, Kyavana the Bhargava, or Kyavana the Ångirasa, was left behind here (on earth) decrepit and ghostlike 6.
This is a false analysis of ritâyu, righteous, holy.' ? The text has · Brahman,' which must be wrong. The Kânva recension has, correctly, mitro vâ ritam, brahma hi mitro, brahma hy ritam.
The Åsvina graha is not actually taken at this time, but later on, after the oblation of drops and the chanting of the Bahishpavamâna stotra; see IV, 2, 5, 12. The reasons for inserting it here are given in parag. 15-16.
• Lit. 'he drinks it while turning it all round' in accordance with the regular Sanskrit idiom. The Asvina cup has three mouths, from which the Soma is drunk by turns. See Haug, Transl. Ait. Br. p. 132.
On this legend, and its probable connection with that of Medea's cauldron, and the Germanic 'quecprunno' (Jungbrunnen, well of renovation), see A. Kuhn, 'Herabkunft des Feuers und des Göttertranks,' p. 11. For other translations, see Weber, Ind. Streifen, i. p. 13 seq.; Muir, O. S. T. v. p. 250 seq.; Delbrück ii. p. 121. For
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