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.
end (of his garment ?). Now the gods and the Asuras, both of them sprung from Pragâpati, entered upon their father Pragâpati's inheritance: the gods came in for the Mind and the Asuras for Speech. Thereby the gods came in for the sacrifice and Asuras for speech; the gods for yonder (heaven) and the Asuras for this (earth).
19. The gods said to Yagña (m., the sacrifice), . That Vâk (f., speech) is a woman: beckon her, and she will certainly call thee to her.' Or it may be, he himself thought, “That Vâk is a woman: I will beckon her and she will certainly call me to her.' He accordingly beckoned her. She, however, at first disdained him from the distance: and hence a woman, when beckoned by a man, at first disdains him from the distance. He said, She has disdained me from the distance.'
20. They said, 'Do but beckon her, reverend sir, and she will certainly call thee to her.' He beckoned her; but she only replied to him, as it were, by shaking her head : and hence a woman, when beckoned by a man, only replies to him, as it were, by shaking her head. He said, She has only replied to me by shaking her head.'
21. They said, 'Do but beckon her, reverend sir, and she will certainly call thee to her. He beckoned her, and she called him to her; and hence a woman at last calls the man to her. He said, 'She has indeed called me.'
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1 The Madhyandinas tied the horn to the unwoven end (thrum, dasa) of the nether garment which was tucked through (par. 15) and then allowed to hang down in front. The Kânvas, on the other hand, tied it to the hem of the upper garment (uttarasike ! Kanva text); cf. Kâty. VII, 3, 29 scholl.
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