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.
head towards the north, or in front of the hall with her face to the east.
5. And that which is the right one of the two bones with hair-tufts which protrude on both sides of her tail-bone,—thereon he offers those thirtyfour oblations of ghee; for as much as are those thirty-four utterances, so much is the sacrifice: thus he lays the whole sacrifice entirely into her; for therefrom she lets the gharma (milk) flow, and this is the atonement therefore.
6. And if any part of the sacrifice were to fail, let him make an oblation with regard thereto on the Åhavaniya during the consecration and the Upasads, and on the Agnidhra during the Soma feast-for whatever point of the sacrifice fails, that breaksand whichever then is the deity in that (special offering), through that one he heals it, through that he puts it together again.
7. And if anything! be spilt, let him pour water thereon--everything here being pervaded (or ob tained) by water-for the obtainment of everything ; with a verse to Vishnu and Varuna,-for whatsoever distress one undergoes here on earth, all that Varuna inflicts 3,—(Vág. S. VIII, 59; Atharva-veda VII, 25,
for the Asvins l' &c., see IV, 2, 1, 11 seq. Perhaps yasyâm velâyâm has to be taken in the sense of at the same time at which . they make it flow,' as is done in the St. Petersb. Dict. Compare, however, the Kanva reading, tad yâm upasamkrâmeyus tâm agrena vå dikshita salam yatra vainam etat pinvayanti tad enam prâkim vodikîm vâ sthâpayitavai brûyât.
1 Viz. any Soma, according to Kåty. XXV, 2, 9; or any clotted ghee (prishadâgya), according to the Kanva text.
* For this construction, see p. 15, note 3.
* Or, whatsoever undergoes (suffering) here on earth, all that Varuna causes to undergo it.
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