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.
19. Now, in that former case, there is a hall with the roof-beams running from south to north 1,--that is human practice. There are one and the same Åhavaniya, and different Gârhapatyas—that is dissimilar. On the Grihapati's Garhapatya they perform the Patnisamyågas with the tail (of the victim), and the others sit offering in response with ghee that is dissimilar.
20. But here there is a hall with the roof-beams running from west to east? : that is as with the gods. There are the same Ahavaniya, the same Gârhapatya, and the same Ågnidhriya : thus this sacrificial session is successful, even as the one day's Somasacrifice was successful, there is no failure for it. Its course is one and the same in everything except the dhishnyas.
NINTH BRAHMANA. 1. Now, once on a time, the gods were sitting : in a sacrificial session, thinking, 'May we attain excellence, may we be glorious, may we be eaters of food !' That same food, gained by them, wished to go away from them,-and, food being cattle, it was the cattle that wished to go away from them, thinking, 'It is to be feared lest they, being exhausted, may hurt us: how, indeed, will they deal with us ?'
2. They offered these two oblations in the Gâr
1 Viz, the Sadas, see p. 128, note I.
? As in the case of the Prâkîna-vamsa of ordinary ishtis. See III, 1, 1, 6-7.
• The Kânva text has nisheduh, they sat down.' See IV, 6, 8, 1.
• See p. 31, note 1.
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