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 KÄNDA, 5 ADHYAYA, I BRÂHMANA, 13.
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(cows to the priests), he will slaughter all these;indeed, everything is obtained, everything conquered by him who gives a thousand or more. Those (three) cows are everything, (when offered) thus in the proper order : first one to Mitra and Varuna, then one to the All-gods, then one to Brihaspati.
12. And those who perform a long sacrificial session, for a year or more, they will slaughter all these?;-indeed everything is obtained, everything conquered by those who perform a long sacrificial session, for a year or more: those (cows) are everything, (when offered) thus in the proper order.
13. Thereupon he performs the Udavasâniya ishti (completing oblation). He prepares a cake on five potsherds for Agni. Its invitatory and offering prayers are five-footed panktis. For at this time the sacrifice of him who has sacrificed is, as it were, exhausted in strength : it, as it were, passes away from him. Now all sacrifices are Agni, since all sacrifices are performed in him, the domestic sacrifices as well as others. He thus takes hold again of the sacrifice, and thus that sacrifice of his is
* The immolation of the three anubandhyâ cows is prescribed at the end of the Gavâmayana (see note on IV, 5, 4, 14), and at other Sattras (sacrificial session) lasting at least a year, and endowed with fees of at least a thousand cows, except the Sarasvata Sattra. Kâty. XIII, 4, 4, 5.
• The Udavasà niya ish/i is performed, with certain modifica. tions, on the model of the Paunaradheyiki ishti, or offering for the re-establishment of the sacred fire ; for which see II, 2, 3, 4 seq., and especially the notes on part i, p. 317 seq. It is to be performed somewhere north of the sacrificial ground on a fire produced by the churning of the aranis or (pairs of) churning-sticks, with which the priests have previously lifted' their several fires. See p. 90, notes 4 and 5; and part i, p. 396, note 1.
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