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.
with ‘Brihat! Brihat!' (great), whereby he draws Indra ' nigh.
2. The Sukra and Manthin grahas he draws first, for thereby the Soma feast comes to be supplied with pure Soma (sukra). Thereupon the Ågrayana, for that (cup) is drawn at all (three) feasts. Then the Marutvatiya cup; then the Ukthya, for here also there are songs of praise (Uktha)2.
3. Now some draw the Marutvatiya after they have drawn the Ukthya ; but let him not do this, - let him rather draw the Ukthya after he has drawn the Marutvatiya.
the Prâtahsavana (see p. 256, note 1). Meanwhile the Grâvastut takes the band, and winds it thrice round his head and face from left to right. And whenever Soma-stalks are taken out for pressing he extols the stones by chanting the Grava-stotra or 'praise of the stones.' According to Asv. Sr. V, 12; Ait. Br. VI, 7, 2, this chant consists of the verses Rig-veda I, 24, 3; V, 81, 1; VIII, 81, 1; VIII, 1, 1, followed by the hymn X, 94, ascribed to the serpent Rishi Arbuda. Before the last verse of this hymn he inserts the hymns X, 76 and X, 175 (ascribed to the serpents Garatkarna and Arbuda respectively); and either before, or between, or after these two hymns he throws in the pavamânih (Rig-veda IX) according to requirement, till the pressing is completed, or the libations are to be drawn, when having wound up with the last verse of the first Arbuda hymn, he makes over the band to the sacrificer. The five cups mentioned in paragraph 2 are filled from the stream of Soma flowing from the Hotri's cup into the Dronakalasa ; the Āgrayana (p. 290, note 2) however being taken (in the Agrayana sthali or bowl) from that and two other streams, poured by the Unnetri from the Adhavanîya, and by the Pratiprasthatri from some vessel containing the Soma previously kept in the Agrayana sthâli.
1 Probably on account of the connection of the Brihat-sâman with Indra; see part i, p. 196, note 2.
See p. 294, note 2. Sâyana here curiously explains the term by stotrani.'
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