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.
do they who perform the priestly duties. But the yoked (animal) galls or scratches itself; and water is a means of soothing, a medicine: thus wherever in this (sacrifice) they gall or scratch themselveswater being a means of soothing--they soothe by that means of soothing, water; they heal it by water. This is why they touch the vessels filled (with water).
14. They touch them with (Våg. S. VIII, 14), With lustre, with sap, with bodies? have we united, -with the happy spirit: may Tvashtri, the dispenser of boons, grant us riches, and may he smooth what was injured in our body!' thus they heal what was torn.
15. They then touch their faces. There is a twofold reason why they touch their faces ;-water, forsooth, is the elixir of immortality: it is with the elixir of immortality that they thus touch themselves. And, moreover, they thus deposit that holy work into their own self: therefore they touch their faces.
Fourth BRÂHMANA.
E. CONCLUDING CEREMONIES. 1. Now, it is nine Samishtayagus? he offers on this occasion. The reason why he offers nine Samishtayagus is that those stotra-verses at the Bahishpavamâna' chant amount to nine. Thus there is at both ends an inferior (incomplete) virág-, for the
1 See I, 9, 3, 6. Cf. Atharva-veda VI, 53, 3. The Tândya Br. I, 3, 9 reads 'sam tapobhih' (with fervour).
See I, 9, 2, 25 seq. See p. 310, note 1.
The virág consists of pâdas of ten syllables. For the same speculation, see II, 5, 1, 20.
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