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.
resound! Agnidh, stir the sour milk ! be thou mindful of Soma's (pap)! It is for the evening's pressfeast that those pressers press out (the Soma-juice), for the evening feast they make the mortars resound, for the evening feast the Agnidh stirs the sour milk, for the evening feast he boils the pap for Soma. For these two press-feasts, the morning feast and the midday feast, are indeed rich in pure Soma, are rich in juice; but that third press-feast is emptied of the pure Soma. Hence he forms it from out of this midday feast; and thus that third press-feast becomes for him rich in pure Soma, rich in juice : this is why he now speaks that speech.
Fourth BRAHMANA. 1. Now, they slay the sacrifice, when they spread (perform) it:—to wit, when they press out the king (Soma), they slay him ; when they quiet the victim, they slay it; and with mortar and pestle, with the upper and nether millstone, they slay the havis offering.
2. When slain, that sacrifice was no longer vigorous. By means of dakshinas (gifts to the priests) the gods invigorated it: hence the name dakshina, because thereby they invigorated (dakshay) it. Whatever, therefore, fails in this sacrifice, when slain, that he now invigorates by means of gifts to the priests ; then the sacrifice becomes indeed successful: for this reason he makes gifts to the priests.
3. Now at the Haviryagña, indeed, they give as little as six or twelve (cows), but no Soma-sacrifice should have dakshinâs of less than a hundred. For
* See II, 2, 2, 3-5.
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