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, 2 ADHYAYA, I BRAHMANA, 27.
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we be the preservers of thine unbroken manhood and prosperity, O divine Soma!' This is the benediction of that performance: he thereby invokes a blessing.
23. He then calls (on the Agnidh) for the Sraushat, and says, 'Urge thou for Indra the Soma-draughts brought forward, the pure, sweet-flowing, of the morrow's morning feast!' As the Vashat is uttered, the Adhvaryu offers; then the Pratiprasthâtri; then the cup-bearers (kamasadhvaryu).
24. Those two offer while standing in front of the fire); for these two (libations) are the eyes : thus they put those eyes in the front; and hence these eyes are in the front.
25. They offer while standing on both sides of the stake; for what the nose is, that is the sacrificial stake: hence these two eyes are on both sides of the nose.
26. Being consecrated by Vashat, these two (libations) are offered with a prayer. Now it is because the entire Savana is offered after these two (libations) that they attain to this (distinction)"; and the reason why the entire Savana is offered after them, is that they are most distinctly Pragâ pati's own : for they are the eyes, and the eye is the truth, and Pragâpati is the truth ;-this is why the entire Savana is offered after them.
27. He offers with, 'This is the first consecration, assuring all boons: he is the first, Varuna,
1 And because these two (libations), having been consecrated by Vashat, are offered with a mantra, therefore they attain this (distinction) that the entire Savana is offered after them; and the reason why the entire Savana is offered after them, is that these two are its eyes,' &c.
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