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 ADHYAYA, 5 BRÂHMANA, 19. 383 offering prayer to Varuna !' and offers as the Vashat is uttered.
17. Then, having made an underlayer of ghee, he says, while putting the (remainder of the) cake (into the spoon), 'Recite the invitatory prayer to Agni and Varuna !' This is for (Agni) Svishtakrit?; and as to why he does not say 'To Agni,' it is lest Varuna might seize upon Agni. If before he has cut twice from the Soma-husks, he now does so once, but if (he did) not, he need not heed it. He then bastes it twice with butter on the upper side; and having called for the Sraushat, he says, 'Recite the offering prayer to Agni and Varuna!' and offers as the Vashat is uttered.
18. Now these are six oblations; for there are six seasons in the year, and Varuna is the year: hence there are six oblations.
19. This is the course of the Adityas ?; and these Yagus, they say, belong to the Adityas. Let (the Adhvaryu) endeavour to perform as much of it as is his (the sacrificer's) wish. And if the sacrificer tell him to do otherwise, then he should do otherwise. He may also perform those same four fore-offerings, -omitting that to the Barhis-two butter-portions, (the oblations of cake) to Varuna and Agni-Varuna, and two after-offerings,-omitting the one to the Barhis ;—this makes ten. Now the virag consists
· See 1, 7, 3, 7 seq.
· Professor Weber, Ind. Stud. X, p. 393, refers us to XIV, 9, 4, 33, where it is stated that the Vågasaneyin Adhvaryu has to study the Yagus of the Aditya Rishi. One might also be inclined to think that, by Âdityânâm ayanam' and Angirasâm ayanam'the author intended to connect the Agnishtoma with the sacrificial sessions designated by those terms, for which see Asv. Sr. XII, 1-2; Ait. Br. IV, 17, with Haug's notes.
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