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, 4 ADHYÂYA, I BRÂHMANA, 10.
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Sraushat, he says, Prompt (the Hotri to recite the offering prayer) to the god Savitri!' The Vashat having been pronounced, he offers. He (the Hotri) pronounces no Anuvashat", - for Savitri is his mind, —lest he should consign his mind to the fire;' and Savitri being his breath, - lest he should consign his breath to the fire.'
8. Then with the (same) vessel, without drinking therefrom?, he draws the Vaisvadeva graha. The reason why he draws the Vaisvadeva graha with the (same) vessel, without drinking therefrom, is this: on the Sâvitra graha he (the Hotri) pronounces no Anuvashat, and it is therefrom that he is about to draw the Vaisvadeva graha,—thus it is by means of the Vaisvadeva that it becomes supplied with the Anuvashat for him.
9. And further why he draws the Vaisvadeva graha. Savitri, forsooth, is his mind, and the Visve Devâh (All-gods, or all the gods ) are everything here: he thus makes everything here subservient and obedient to the mind, and hence everything here is subservient and obedient to the mind.
10. And again why he draws the Vaisvadeva graha. Savitri, forsooth, is his breath, and the Allgods are everything here: he thereby puts the outbreathing and in-breathing into everything here, and
See p. 351, note 1. . Lit. with the not-drunk-from vessel.' He is not to drink with the Hotri the remains of the Savitra graha, which is to be offered up entirely (holocaust).
In Ait. Br. III, 31 five classes of beings, viz. the gods and men, the Gandharva-Apsaras, the serpents and the manes, are included in the term Visve Devâh.
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