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 KANDA, 2 ADHYÂYA, I BRÂumana, 32.
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two (cups) behind 1, but do so take the other cups, is that those two are the eyes. The residue (of Soma), then, he pours into the Hotri's cup.
31. They now fill up the cups of the fire-priests. For those residues ? are remains of oblations, insufficient for offering : he now fills them up again, and thus they become sufficient for offering : therefore they fill up the cups of the fire-priests.
32. Thereupon they make the fire-priests offer together 3. Now the fire-priests combined convey
1 That is, to the Sadas, for the priests to drink from.
• Viz. the residues in the kamasas of the Hotrakas. The filling (by the Unnetri) of the cups of the Kamasins-Hotri, Brahman, Udgâtri, (and Sacrificer); Prasastri, Brâhmanâkhamsin, Potri, Neshtri, and Âgnîdhra ; that of the Akhâvâka remains empty for the presenttakes place before the libations from the Sukra and Manthin grahas. Their cups are filled by the Unnetri with Soma-juice from the Pâtabhrit, with an 'underlayer' and final 'sprinkling' or 'basting' of pure' Soma from the Dronakalasa. Previous to the filling, the Adhvaryu calls on the Maiträvaruna to 'recite to (those cups) being drawn,' the latter then reciting the hymn, Rig-veda I, 16, while the cups are filled. When the Sraushat is about to be pronounced by the Agnîdh for the Sukra and Manthin libations, the cup-bearers lift (udyam) the cups, and, after the Pratiprasthâtri has made his libation, they also pour some Soma-juice into the fire. The cupbearers of the first four Kamasins do so twice and then take their cups back to the Sadas), the others only once. Thereupon the cup-bearers of these last five—the so-called Hotrakas, or subordinate Hotris-are summoned again, and their cups having been filled up with 'pure' Soma, the Adhvaryu makes, after the Sraushat, two more libations from each at the Vashat and Anuvashat respectively. For the offering-formulas and Anuvasha/kâras, see Asv. V, 5, 18-19. Holding the Agnîdh's cup in his hand, he then goes to the Sadas and sits down facing the Hotri, whereupon they drink together the Soma in the dvidevatya cups.
• The phrase "hotrâh (fem.) samyagayanti' is apparently analogous to the 'patnîh samyagayanti'[they perform the Patnisamyâgas, or, make the wives (of the gods) participate in the sacrifice] of the
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