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 ADHYAYA, 7 BRÂHMANA, 4.
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SEVENTH BRÂHMANA. 1. Now, there are here thirty-four utterances, called expiations 1. Pragâ pati, forsooth, is that sacrifice which is performed here, and from which these creatures have been produced, -and in like manner are they produced therefrom even to this day.
2. There are eight Vasus, eleven Rudras, twelve Ådityas; and these two, Heaven and Earth, are the (thirty-second and) thirty-third. And there are thirty-three gods, and Pragàpati is the thirty-fourth; -thus he makes him (the sacrificer, or Yagña) to be Pragàpati?: now that S is, for that is immortal, and what is immortal that is. But what is mortal that also is Pragâpati; for Pragâpati is everything: thus he makes him to be Pragàpati, and hence there are these thirty-four utterances, called expiations.
3. Now some call these (formulas) the 'forms of the sacrifice;' but, indeed, they are rather the joints of the sacrifice : this same sacrifice, in being performed, is continually becoming those deities.
4. Now should the cow, which supplies the gharma 4, fail (to give milk), let them go to another ; and at the same place where they otherwise make that gharma (milk) flow, let them place her with her
1 Viz. the formulas, Vag. S. VIII, 54-58, employed for making good any mishaps during the Soma-sacrifice. Cf. Sat. Br. XII, 6, 1, I seq. In the Kårva recension, V, 7, 4, kandikâs 5-10 correspond to the present Brahmana, while kandikâs 1-4 contain the account of the Mahâyratiya graha corresponding to M. IV, 6, 4. '? Or, this then he makes Pragâpati to be; but see IV, 6, 1, 5.
? I.e. that divine race or element. The Kânva text reads, etavad và idam asty, etad dhy amritam, yad dhy amritam tad asti. * See p. 104, note 3.
That is, when they milk the cow with the Mantras · Flow thou
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