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.
10. In like manner they enclose the Havirdhana on all sides with a view to that generation, thinking, 'Quite secretly this generation shall be carried on!' for improper, indeed, is the generation which another sees : hence even when a husband and wife are seen, while carrying on intercourse, they run away from each other, for they give offence. Therefore to any one looking into the Havirdhâna, except through the door, let him say, “Look not!' for it is as if he were seeing intercourse being carried on. Freely (one may look) through the door, for the door is made by the gods.
11. Now there, in the Sadas, that male, the Såman, longs after the female, the Rik. From that generation Indra was produced: from fire, indeed, fire is produced, viz. Indra from the Rik and the Saman; for Indra they call him that burns yonder (the sun).
12. And there, in the Havirdhana, that male, the Soma, longs after the female, the water. From that generation the moon was produced : from food, indeed, food is produced, viz. the moon from water and Soma; for the moon is the food of him that burns yonder! Hence he thereby produces the sacrificer, and for him he produces food : from the Rik and Saman he produces the sacrificer, and from water and Soma he produces food for him.
13. Now with the Yagus the gods first performed sacrifice, then with the Rik, then with the Sâman ; and in like manner do they now perform the sacrifice, first with the Yagus, then with the Rik, then with the Saman; for Yagus, they say, is the same as Yagas (worship).
14. Now when the gods milked (the objects of) their wishes from these sciences, the Yagus science
See I, 6, 4, 13 seq.
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