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.
Shodasin) to remain over : hence he takes it with an Anushtubh.
6. He draws it in a square cup; for there are three worlds: these same worlds he gains by three corners, and by the fourth corner he makes that (Soma) to remain over ;—therefore he draws it in a square cup.
7. Let him draw it at the morning pressing, after drawing the Agrayana. Having been drawn at the morning pressing, it reposes apart from that time: he thus makes it to outlast all (three) pressings.
8. Or he may draw it at the midday pressing, after drawing the Agrayana, -- but this is mere speculation : let him rather draw it at the morning pressing, after drawing the Agrayana: having been drawn at the morning pressing, it reposes apart from that time.
9. He thus draws it therefrom with (Vág. S. VIII, 33; Rig-veda I, 84, 3), ‘Mount the chariot, o slayer of Vritra, thy bay steeds have been harnessed by prayer! May the stone by its sound draw hitherward thy mind!—Thou art taken with a support: thee to Indra Shodasin (the sixteenfold)!-- This is thy womb: thee to Indra Shodasin!'
10. Or with this (verse, Vâg. S. VIII, 34; Rigveda I, 10, 3), ‘Harness thy long-maned, girthfilling bay steeds! Come hither to us, O Indra, drinker of Soma, to hear our songs! Thou art taken with a support: thee to Indra Shoda sin !—This is thy womb: thee to Indra Shodasin!'
11. Thereupon he returns (to the sadas) and bespeaks the chant with, Soma has been left over :
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