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-BRÂHMANA.
· 15. Thereupon he proceeds with (the offering of) the cakes of the Soma feast. Now Soma is a god, for Soma was in the heaven ;-Soma, forsooth, was Vritra ; the mountains and stones are his body: thereon grows that plant called Usânâ,' said Svetaketu Auddalaki; 'that they bring hither and press.
16. Now when he slays the victim, he thereby puts flavour into it; and when he proceeds with (the offering of) the Soma feast cakes, he puts sap into it : thus it becomes Soma for him.
17. They all belong to Indra ; for Indra is the deity of the sacrifice: that is why they all belong to Indra.
18. And as to why there are a cake, parched barley-grain, a porridge, sour curds, and clotted curds,—it is that those who are the deities of the sacrifice shall be well-pleased.
19. For, when one has eaten cake here, he wishes, 'I should like to take parched grains, I should like to eat porridge, I should like to eat sour curds, I should like to eat clotted curds !' All these are objects of one's) wishes : it is in order that those who are the deities of the sacrifice shall be well-pleased. Now as to why that offering of clotted curds (payasya) is prepared only at the morning libation, and not at the two other libations (Soma feasts).
20. The Gayatri, forsooth, bears the morning libation (to the gods), the Trishtubh the midday libation, and the Gagati the evening libation,—but, then, the Trishtubh bears the midday libation, not alone, (but) with both the Gâyatri and the Brihati'; and the Gagati (bears) the evening libation, not alone,
1 For the metres of which the Mâdhyandina-pavamâna stotra is composed, see p. 333, note I.
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