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, 3 ADHYÂYA, 3 BRÂHMANA, 12.
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9. He said, Do ye join me with vigour!'*Then draw a third cup for us,' they said. He drew a third cup for them, with, Thou art taken with a support,—thee for the vigour of the Maruts!' They then joined him with vigour,—and he conquered with them, and smote Vritra with them ;for Indra is the nobility, and the Maruts are the people, and through the people the noble becomes strong. Hence he now bestows that strength on the nobility, and therefore he draws the Marutvatiya cups.
10. Let him draw them for Indra Marutvat (accompanied by the Maruts), and not for the Maruts likewise. For were he also to draw cups for the Maruts, he would make the people refractory to the nobility. He thus assigns to the Maruts a share therein, after Indra, whereby he makes the people subservient and obedient to the nobility: therefore let him draw the cups for Indra Marutvat, and not for the Maruts likewise.
11. But he was afraid of their desertion,-Lest they should desert me, lest they should take to some other (party)?, so thinking, he by that (share in the libation) made them unwilling to desert him. This is why he should draw the grahas for Indra Marutvat.
12. He draws them with the two vessels of the . seasons, for the year, the sacrifice, means the seasons. There, at the morning Soma feast, they are overtly attended to, in that he draws the grahas for the seasons 2; and now they are covertly attended
For the construction, see p. 33, note i. 2 See IV, 3, 1, 3 seq.
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