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-BRÂHMANA.
2. They are joined (fitted) together along their edge', for these two worlds are also, as it were, joined together at their edge. At the hind part they are fastened together through holes: thus, after uniting (mithunikritya) these two worlds, he consecrates him thereon.
3. But if there be only one (skin), then it is an image of these (three) worlds; then he consecrates him on these (three) worlds. Those (hairs) which are white are an image of the sky; those which are black are (an image) of this (earth);—or, if he likes, conversely: those which are black are an image of the sky, and those which are white are an image) of this (earth). Those which are of a brownish yellow colour?, are an image of the atmosphere. Thus he consecrates him on these (three) worlds.
4. And let him, in that case, turn in the hind end (of the skin)3: thus, after uniting these worlds with each other, he consecrates him thereon.
5. He then squats down behind the two skins, with his face towards the east and with bent (right) knee; and while touching them thust at a place
The two skins are fitted together at the inner sides, and stretched along the ground by means of wooden pins driven into the ground and passed through holes all round the edge of the skins; the hairy sides of the latter remaining outside (above and below). At their hind parts they are tacked together by means of a thong passed through the holes and tied together in a loop.'
? Yâny eva babhrûnîva harini. The Kânva text reads, Yâny eva madhye babhrůni va harini vâ, those in the centre (or between the black and white) which are either brown or yellow (grey).
& According to Kâty. VII, 3, 21 it would seem that the two hind feet, or one of them, should be doubled up (at the joint) and sewed under. According to the Satras of the Black Yagus, on the other hand, the right fore-foot is turned under.
* According to the Sätras of the Black Yagus, he is to touch at
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