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-BRÂHMANA.
oblation, thinking 'On the kindled (fire) will I offer to the gods!'
14. Then, having taken ghee a second time in four ladlings, and having called for the (Ågnidhra's) Sraushat, he says, 'Pronounce the offering prayer to the Kindling-sticks!' He offers four foreofferings, omitting that to the Barhis —the Barhis being offspring, and the expiatory bath belonging to Varuna-lest Varuna should seize upon his offspring. This is why he offers four fore-offerings, omitting that to the Barhis.
15. Then follows a cake on one potsherd for Varuna. For whatever sap there had been in him (Soma), that sap of his he has produced (extracted) for the offerings. Now that body: there is no sap in it. But the cake is sap: that sap he puts into it. Thus he unites him with that sap, and so produces him from it-he (Soma), even when produced, produces him (the sacrificer): hence there is a cake on one potsherd for Varuna.
16. Having made an underlayer' of ghee (in the offering-spoon), he says, while making the cuttings from the cake?, 'Recite (the invitatory prayer) to Varuna!' Here now some make two cuttings from the Soma-husks, but let him not do so; for that (heap of husks) is an empty body, unfit for offering. He makes two cuttings (from the cake) and bastes them once with ghee, and anoints (replenishes the places whence) the cuttings (have been made). Having called for the Sraushat, he says, ' Recite the
1 For the usual five prayâgas, see I, 5, 3, 8-13.
. As a rule, cakes on one potsherd are to be offered entire. The present cake, however, is to be an exception, and the usual two portions are to be cut from it. See part i, p. 192, note.
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