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.
twenty-four. Now there are twenty-four half-moons in the year, and Pragâpati is the year, and the Amsu is Pragâpati : thus he makes him to be Praxåpati.
13. Now Kaukūsta' indeed gave as many as twenty-four heifers with their first calf as dakshinas, and a bull as the twenty-fifth, and gold; and truly that is what he gave.
14. This (graha) should not be drawn for every one, since this is his (Yagña's) self. It should only be drawn for one who is well known, or one who is his (the Adhvaryu's) friend, or one who, being learned in sacred lore, would acquire it by his study.
15. It should be drawn at a (sacrifice with) a thousand (cows as the priests' fee); for a thousand is everything, and this (graha) is everything. It should be drawn at (a sacrifice) where the entire property is given away, for the entire property is everything, and this (graha) is everything. It should be drawn at a Visvagit with all the Prishthas, for the Visvagit (all-conquering') is everything, and this (cup) is everything. It should be drawn at a Vâgapeya and Râgasaya, for that is everything. It should be drawn at a sattra (sacrificial session), for the sattra means everything, and this (cup) means everything. These are the drawings.
THE GAVÂM AYANA”.
SECOND BRAHMANA. 1. Verily, they who sit (sacrificing) for a year, by means of six months go to him that burns yonder :
1 The Kanva MSS. read 'Kaükthasta.
Perhaps the author here means to connect sattra (satra) with the adverbs satram, satra, altogether, always,' instead of with the verb sad, to sit; but cf. IV, 6, 8, 1.
8 The great sacrificial session (sattra), called Gavâm ayana, or
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