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.
the last cup has not yet been drawn therefrom for the Akhâvâka priest, he pours (the remaining) onethird of the Vasativari (into the Adhavaniya). Thus the joint unites; for, indeed, he makes it the first of the second pressing, and the last of the first pressing': that which belongs to the second pressing he makes first, and that which belongs to the first he makes last. Thus he interlocks them; whence these joints are interlocked: this one overlapping thus, and this one thus. And because his body is thereby held together, therefore this (graha) is his vital energy.
6. This (Ukthya graha) is the cow of plenty, Indra's special portion. At the morning feast he (the Adhvaryu) divides it for three songs of praise ?, and at the midday feast for three,—this makes six times, for there are six seasons, and the seasons mature all wishes here on earth : for this reason, then, this (libation) is the cow of plenty, Indra's special portion.
7. He draws it without (reciting) a puroruk; for the puroruk is a song of praise, since the puroruk is a Rik, and the song of praise is Rik; and the libation is Sâman; and what other (formula) he mutters, that is Yagus. Formerly these same (puroruk verses) were apart from the Riks, apart from the Yagus, and apart from the Såmans.
That is to say, the last (thing) of the first of the last two pressings, or of the midday pressing.
* Uktha, lit. 'recitation,' is the old term for 'sastra' (IV, 3, 2, I seq.). Regarding the three sastras of the Hotrakas, for the recitation of which the Ukthya graha is divided between those priests, see notes on IV, 3, 1, 25; 3, 3, 19.
3 The Kânva text reads thrice abhyardhe.' Regarding the puroruk formulas see p. 268, note 1.
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