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.
embryos have the air for their support, and the tree is, as it were, the same as the air: thus he establishes it on its own support. But, say they, if, in that case, any one were to curse him, saying, “They shall expose him? dead on a tree,' then verily it would be so.
14. They may throw it into the water, for water is the support of everything here: he thus establishes it in the water. But, say they, if, in that case, any one were to curse him, saying, 'He shall die in water !' then verily it would be so.
15. They may bury it in a mole-hill; for this (earth) is the support of everything here: he thus establishes it on this same (earth). But, say they, if, in that case, any one were to curse him, saying, 'They shall quickly prepare a burying-place for him, being dead !' then verily it would be so.
16. He may offer it to the Maruts on the cookingfire of the animal sacrifice; for the Maruts, the clans (common people) of the gods, are not oblation-eaters (ahuta-ad), and the uncooked embryo, as it were, is no oblation (ahuta); and the animal cooking-fire is taken from the Åhavaniya : thus indeed it (the embryo) is
are the people: he thus establishes it with the Maruts. Or (uto) with a verse to Heaven and Earth,' The great Heaven and Earth ...,' for additional superfluous (atirikta) is that (garbha), beyond these two, heaven and earth, nothing whatever remains (or, nothing surpasses them, atirikyata): thus he establishes it within those two, heaven and earth; and while being superfluous, it comes to be no longer superfluous (or redundant),
1 Enam' apparently refers both to the sacrificer and to the embryo (garbha, masc.).
? For the common people are eaters of raw flesh (amad), and the Maruts are the people. Kanva text. Neither a Kshatriya nor a Vaisya can eat remains of offerings, but only a Brahman is hutad, Ait. Br. VII, 19.
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