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.
Eighth BRÂHMANA. 1. Now when at that Triratra' sacrifice he gives those thousand (cows), then that one is made the one thousandth. On the first day he brings three hundred and thirty-three; and likewise on the second day he brings three hundred and thirty-three; and likewise on the third day he brings three hundred and thirtythree. Then that one-thousandth is left over.
2. She should be three-coloured, they say, for that is the most perfect form for her. But let it be a red one, and spotted, for that indeed is the most perfect form for her.
3. Let it be one that has not been approached (by a bull), for she, the Sahasrf, is in reality Vák (speech); but Vak, forsooth, is of unimpaired vigour, and so is one of unimpaired vigour which has not been approached : therefore it should be one that has not been approached.
4. He may lead her up (to the sacrificial ground) on the first day; for she, the Sahasri, is in reality Vak, and hers, Vak's, is that thousandfold progeny.
1 The Sahasradakshina Triratra, or sacrifice of three (pressing) days, with a thousand cows as the priests' fee, is mentioned Kâty. XIII, 4, 15 seq. as, apparently, an independent Ahîna sacrifice. I do not, however, know whether it might not be added on to some other sacrificial performance, as, for instance, to the Prishthya shadaha, thus forming together with this the Navaratra (or first nine days of the Dasarâtra, see p. 402, note 2). Kâty. gives no indication as to the particular forms of Soma-sacrifice required for the several days; but, guided no doubt by the Brahmana, he confines his remarks to the manner of distribution of the dakshinâs.
* Sahasrî, lit. 'she who makes the dakshinâ to consist of one thousand.'
• Or,—and from her, Vâk, those thousand (cows) were produced ;
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