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-BRAHMANA.
'belt'round it: this is its second (peculiarity of) shape, and therefore it belongs to two deities. The vessel of the graha for Mitra and Varuna is goatlikel: this is its second shape, and therefore it belongs to two deities. The vessel of the graha for the Asvins is lip-shaped : this is its second shape, and therefore it belongs to two deities. And the reason why (this belongs to) the Asvins is that the Asvins are the heads (mukhya, viz. of the sacrifice), and this head (mukha 2) is supplied with lips : hence the vessel of the Asvina graha is lip-shaped.
SECOND ADHYAYA. FIRST BRÂHMANA.
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1. The Sukra and Manthin (grahas), forsooth, are his eyes. Now the Sukra, indeed, is he that burns yonder (the sun); and because it burns there 3, therefore it is (called) Sukra ('bright'). And the Manthin, indeed, is the moon.
2. He mixes it with (barley) meal: thus he makes it to be gruel (mantha), whence it is (called) Manthin. Now those two (sun and moon), forsooth, are the eyes of these creatures; for were those two not to rise, these (creatures) could not distinguish even their own hands.
3. One of them is the eater, and the other the
1 Or rather, according to the commentary on Kâty. IX, 2, 6, it resembles the breast of the goat (agakâ).
9 Lit. 'mouth.'
8 This is how Sâyana takes the passage : sukragrahas tapati sokati dîpyata iti tasya sukranâmadheyam. It is doubtless the correct interpretation, though the pronouns esha' and 'etad' might lead one to refer them to the sun.
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