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, 8 BRÂHMANA, 10.
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She walks at the head (of the other 333 cows), and behind her follows her progeny. Or he may lead her up on the last day; then her progeny precedes her, and she herself walks behind. This, however, is mere speculation : let him lead her up on the last day, her progeny precedes her, and she herself walks behind.
5. North of the Havirdhâna shed, and south of the Âgnidhra fire-house he makes her smell the Dronakalasa ; for the Dronakalasa is the sacrifice; thus he makes her see the sacrifice.
6. With (Vâg. S. VIII, 42), 'Smell the trough: may the drops enter thee, O mighty one!' Now he who gives a thousand (cows) becomes, as it were, emptied: him, thus emptied, he thereby replenishes, when he says, 'Smell the trough: may the drops enter thee, O mighty one!'
7. 'Return again with sap!'him who is emptied he thus replenishes when he says, 'Return again with sap!'
8. 'And milk to us a thousandfold !' him who is emptied he thus replenishes with a thousand (forces), when he says, 'And milk to us a thousandfold !'
9. 'Broad-streamed, milk-abounding,-may wealth come back to me!' him who is emptied he thus replenishes when he says, ' May wealth come back to me!'
10. He then mutters in her right ear, 'O I da, blithesome, adorable, lovable, bright, shining, Aditi (inviolable), Sarasvati (sapful), mighty,
or,—and from her (the thousandth cow that thousandfold progeny of Vâk was produced; see IV, 6, 7, 3, where the thousandfold progeny of Vâk is identified with the Vedic texts generally.
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