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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SATAPATIIA-BRAHMANA.
by the divine Savitri, acceptable to Mitra and Varuna!' Therewith he hastes to Savitri for his impulsion, for he is the impeller of the gods; and 'acceptable to Mitra and Varuna' he says, because Mitra and Varuna are the deities of the Maitravaruna (Prasastri),—thus he announces it to those who are the deities of the Maiträvaruna: therefore he says, 'acceptable to Mitra and Varuna.'
SEVENTH BRÂHMANA. 1. Threefold, forsooth, is science; the Riks, the Yagus, and the Sâmans. The Riks are this (earth). since it is thereon that he who sings them, does sing them; the Riks are speech, since it is by speech that he who sings them, does sing them. And the Yagus, forsooth, are the air, and the Sâmans the sky. That same threefold science is used in the Soma-sacrifice.
2. By the Rik he conquers this world, by the Yagus the air, and by the Sâman the sky. Therefore whosoever has learnt one of these sciences, let him endeavour to learn also what is contained in the two others : by the Rik, forsooth, he conquers this world, by the Yagus the air, and by the Sâman the sky.
3. This, then, is the thousandfold progeny of Vâk (speech), Indra (obtained for his share) two-thirds, and Vishnu one-third 2: the Riks and Samans are Indra, and the Yagus are Vishnu. Therefore in the Sadas they perform (the Sastras and Stotras) with the Rik and Sâman, for the Sadas is Indra's own.
4. And by means of these Yagus they, as it were, bring forward (puras) that Vishnu, the sacrifice: hence the name 'puraskarana' (preparatory ceremony).
* See IV, 5, 8, 4.
? Thus according to the Kanva text,- dvau bhagav indro 'bhagataikam vishnuh.
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