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 ADHYÂYA, 5 BRÂHMANA, 7.
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2. But Saryâta, the Mânava, just then wandered about here with his tribe, and settled near by that same place. His boys !, while playing, setting that decrepit, ghostlike man at nought, pelted him with clods.
3. He was wroth with the Sâryâtas, and sowed discord among them: father fought with son, and brother with brother.
4. Saryâta then bethought him ?,- This has come to pass for something or other I have done!' He caused the cowherds and shepherds to be called together, and said,
5. He said, 'Which of you has seen anything here this day?'—They said, 'Yonder lies a man, decrepit and ghostlike: him the boys have pelted with clods, setting him at nought.' Then Saryata knew that this was K'yavana.
6. He yoked his chariot, and putting his daughter Sukanya thereon, he set forth, and came to the place where the Rishi was.
7. He said, 'Reverence be to thee, O Rishi;
another version, apparently more modern, of the same legend, found in the Gaiminîya (Talavakâra) Brâhmana, see Professor Whitney, Proceedings Amer. Or. Soc. 1883, p. ix.
I That is, youths of his clan.
i Saryâta then bethought him, 'From something I have done, thence (has come) so great a calamity. It then occurred to him,
Surely, Kyavana, the Bhargava, or Angirasa, was left behind here, decrepit : him I (must) have somehow offended sorely, thence so great a calamity.' He called his tribe together. Having called the tribe together, he said, 'Who, be he cowherd or shepherd, has noticed anything here?' They said, 'Yonder in the wood lies a decrepit, ghostlike man; him the boys have this day pelted with clods: that is the only thing we have descried (? tad evâdarishma),' &c. Kanva text.
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