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 KÂNCA, 6 ADHYAYA, I BRAHMANA, I. 423
after pouring (water) to it from other ekadhana pitchers. But if they do not catch any, let them perform, as far as is in their power, after pouring out some of the Âgrayana and pouring (water) thereto from other ekadhana pitchers. And if the trough bursts before the dakshinâ (cows) have been led up, let him then give one cow; and after coming out from the purificatory bath, let him be consecrated again; for the atonement for that (mishap) is a second sacrifice. So much then as to those who burst the trough.
8. Then as to those by whom any Soma is left over. If any (Soma) be left after the Agnishtoma, let him draw the Ukthya cup from the Pûtabhrit. If any be left after the Ukthya, let him undertake the Shodasin. If any be left after the Shodasin, let them undertake a night (performance)'. If any be left after the night (performance), let them undertake a day (performance). But nothing, surely, remains after that 3.
SIXTH ADHYAYA. FIRST BRAHMANA.
1. Now, the Amsu (graha), forsooth, is no other than Pragâpati: that (cup) is his (Yagña's or the
sense of 'abundantly,' as he circumscribes it by 'prabhavayantah' (which the commentator explains by 'distributing over the several vessels').
That is, he is to perform an Atirâtra, see p. 397, note 2.
Kâty. XXV, 13, 12-14, in that emergency, prescribes (ither the Brihat-sâman (by which a seventeenth stotra is obtained at the Vâgapeya sacrifice, for which see more in Kânda V), or the Mahâvrata (see IV, 6, 4, 1, with note), or the Aptoryâma (see p. 398, note).
The meaning of this seems to be, that after the Aptoryâma, no other sacrifice remains at which he could dispose of any Soma that might be left (and hence one must finish it at that sacrifice). According to Kâty. ib. 15, he is to repeat the Aptoryâma, if any Soma remains after the first performance.
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