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 ADHYÂYA, 5 BRÂHMANA, 9.
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are directed towards these creatures : whence creatures are produced here repeatedly.
9. And as to why they chant the Bahishpavamâna here (near the kåtvåla). In the beginning, forsooth, yonder sun was here on earthThe seasons embraced him and ascended from hence to the heavenly world: there he burns firmly established
Or 3. Hum a b
this form is called 'udyatî,' Huma bbb c Hum a aa b ccc)
or the ascending one. The three paryâyas of a stoma (or vishruti) show each three subdivisions (viz. a a a-b-c, being those of the first paryaya above), called vish tava. When the Udgâtris are about to commence a chant, the Prastotri spreads in their midst a cloth, doubled up so that the unwoven fringe lies over the selvage, either towards the east or north. Thereon he marks the subdivisions of the rounds, by means of sticks (kusa), a span long, of some kind of wood suitable for sacrifice, split lengthways along the pith (the bark being left outside) and somewhat pointed at one end, then smeared over with some fragrant substance, and wrapped up singly in pieces of the same kind of cloth as that spread on the ground. The marking of the vishtâvas, or subdivisions, takes place at the end of the prastâva or prelude see next page, note 1) in this way, that each vishlâva is marked by as many sticks as the corresponding verse has to be repeated; those of the first vishlâva being laid down with the point to the north, then behind or west of them those of the second turn with the point to the west, and behind them those of the third turn with the point to the north. Thereupon those of the other two rounds are laid down in the same way, each turn north of the preceding one. Hence the arrangement of sticks for the first of the above varieties of the pankadasa-stoma would be three straight, one across, one straight; one straight, three across, one straight; one straight, one across, three straight.
With the exception of the Bahishpavamâna, the chanting is performed in the Sadas by the side of the Udumbara post (see III, 6, 1, 2 seq.), the latter being likewise enclosed in a cloth of the above description, wrapt round it from left to right, with the unwoven fringe towards the top.
1 Cf. Tandya Br. VI, 7, 24.
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