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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III KÂNDA, I ADHYAYA, 3 BRÂHMANA, 13.
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looks like a young lad? Against him he (the sacrificer), now that he enters on the sacrifice, raises a rampart of stone all round himself, for the ointment is (produced from) stone.
12. It is such as comes from mount Trikakud; for when Indra slew Vritra he transformed that eye of his (Vritra's) into the mount Trikakud? The reason, then, why (ointment) from mount Trikakud (is used), is that he thereby puts eye into eye. Should he be unable to obtain any Traikakuda ointment, any other than Traikakuda may be used; for one and the same, indeed, is the significance of the ointment
13. He anoints (the eyes) with a reed-stalk, for the reed is a thunderbolt. It is one with a tuft, in order to chase away the evil spirits 8. For rootless,
i Sa esha kanînakah kumaraka iva paribhâsate. A play on the word kanînaka, which has the double meaning of youth' and
pupil of the eye.' The St. Petersburg Dict. assigns also to kumaraka the meaning of ball of the eye' in this the only) passage. The Kanva recension reads, Sa esha kumaraka iva kaninakayam (? both 'maiden' and 'pupil of the eye').
3 Indra slew Vritra, his eye-ball fell away, it became collyrium.' Taitt. S. VI, 1, 1, 5.
Professor Delbrück, S. F. III, 27, takes it thus, He brushes the eye with the end of a reed, for the reed is a thunderbolt capable of repelling mischief.' But, if virakshastayai' belonged to what pre. cedes, it would probably have to be construed with 'sareshikaya 'nakti,' the clause with "vai,' giving the reason, being inserted parenthetically; while, in an idiomatic rendering, it would have to be placed at the end: He anoints the eyes with a reed-stalk in order to chase away the evil spirits, the reed being a thunderbolt. This abstract dative of purpose is very common; it being generally construed with what precedes, as, for instance, I, 1, 4, 1; 3, 2, 8; 5, 3, 8; 15; III, 1, 2, 13; 19; 3,6; 8; and, with a parenthetic clause with 'vai' intervening, III, 2, 1, 13; IV, 5, 7, 7. Not less common is the analogous construction with a clause with 'ned'
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