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.
season'—thereby the gods created the day; and four times with, “With the seasons'—thereby they created the night. And, assuredly, were only this much (used), there would be nothing but night: it would never pass away.
11. Over and above they perform twice with the formula 'With the season ;' thereby the gods subsequently gave the day (again), whence it is now day here, then it will be night, and to-morrow day.
12. By With the season' the gods forsooth created the men, and by With the seasons' the beasts; and because they created the beasts in the middle of those (men), therefore these beasts (cattle), being shut in on both sides, have come into the power of men.
13. And having performed six times with, With the season,' they both turn round their vessels to the other side; and having performed four times with,
With the seasons,' they turn round their vessels to the other side: from the one side (or mouth) indeed the gods created the day, and from the other side the night; from the one side the gods created men, and from the other beasts.
14. Now he draws the cups (for the seasons)
deities and offering priests of the twelve libations are: 1. Indrathe Hotri; 2. the Maruts—the Potri; 3. Tvashtri and the wives of the gods—the Neshtri; 4. Agni—the Âgnîdhra; 5. IndraBrahman—the Brahmanakhamsin; 6. Mitra-Varuna—the Maitravaruna; 7-10. Deva Dravinodas—the Hotri, Potri, Neshtri, and Akhâvâka respectively; 11. the Asvins—the Hotri; 12. Agni Grihapati—the Hotri. For this last libation, the Maiträvaruna in the first place calls on the sacrificer with, 'O lord of the house, pronounce the offering prayer l' and the sacrificer then again on the Hotri with, O Hotri, pronounce the offering prayer upon this l' whereupon the Hotri pronounces the sacrificer's) offering prayer, Kâty. IX, 13; Sâökhâyana Sr. VII, 8; Haug, Transl. Ait. Br. p. 135.
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