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.
taken with a support: thee for the strength of the Maruts!'he draws the third cup.
15. Thereupon he draws the Mahendra cup. For Indra was then bound up with evil, in the shape of the people, the Maruts; as one might, for the sake of victory, eat from the same vessel with the people?, so it was when they drew a cup for him in common with the Maruts.
16. When all was conquered and free from danger and injury, the gods plucked him from out of all evil --even as one might pluck out a reed from its sheath - when they drew the cup for the Great Indra. And even as the reed becomes leafless, so is he thereby freed from all evil, when one draws the Mahendra cup.
17. And again, why he draws the Mahendra cup. Before the slaughter of Vritra, he was indeed Indra ; but when he had slain Vritra, he became the Great Indra, even as one who has conquered all around, becomes a Great King (mahârâga): therefore he draws the Mahendra cup. And, moreover, he forsooth makes him great for the slaughter of Vritra : therefore also he draws the Mahendra cup. He draws it in the Sukra vessel, for bright (sukra) and great indeed is he (the sun) that burns yonder: therefore he draws it in the Sukra vessel.
18. He thus draws it from that (Dronakalasa or Patabhrit), with (Vág. S. VII, 39; Rig-veda VI, 19, 1), 'Great is Indra and hero-like, gladdening the people, of double stature and unimpaired in power. For our sake he waxed strong for heroic deed, great and broad was he, and
That is, as a chief, or lord, might do so with a clansman (vaisyena, Kanva text); or as the master of a house with his servants.
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