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, 5 ADHYÂYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 2.
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SECOND BRAHMANA. 1. They lay hands on the barren cow!, and having laid hands on it, they quiet it. It having been quieted, he says (to the slaughterer), ‘Pull out the omentum!' The omentum having been pulled out?, let him tell (the slaughterer) to search groping for an embryo. If they do not find one, why need they care ? and if they find one, atonement is made therefore.
2. For surely it is not right that, thinking it to be one (cow), they should perform, as it were, with that one; or that, thinking them to be two, they should perform, as it were, with two Let him bid (the
rary erections, as the Sadas, cart-shed, Âgnidhra fire-house, &c., are set on fire, and the sacrificer and priests go home.
1 The order of this and the succeeding Brahmanas differs con. siderably in the two recensions. In the Kanva recension the present Brâhmana (the text of which also differs very much) is preceded by three others (V, 6, 1-3), corresponding to M. IV, 5, 3; IV, 5, 4 and IV, 5, 6, respectively.
* The text has simply, he (viz. the Samitri or butcher) having quieted it, he (the Adhvaryu) says, (S.) having pulled it out, let him (A.) bid. ...
The meaning of this would seem to be, that they should not content themselves with the supposition of its being a barren cow, but that they should ascertain whether she is not-as the term is'ashtåpadi,' or eight-footed, i.e. a cow with calf (cf. par. 12), and should in that case make atonement. The Kanva text reads, Now when they thus proceed with that (animal offering), they, thinking it to be one (cow) only, pronounce the âprî verses (âprînanti). They turn out to be two (te dve bhavatah); and surely it is not right that one should cast away that on which the aprî verses have been pronounced. Now that juice has flowed together from all the limbs : thus offering is also made with those sacrificial portions of that (embryo). And the sacrifice is as much as the havis and Svishtakrit: he thus connects that whole (embryo) with that sacri,
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