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.
own womb? does not injure its offspring, and that black deer's horn being indeed his own womb, that (horn) does not injure him; and therefore the consecrated should scratch himself with the black deer's horn and with nothing but the black deer's horn.
32. He (the Adhvaryu) then hands to him a staff, for driving away the evil spirits,—the staff being a thunderbolt.
33. It is of Udumbara wood (Ficus Glomerata), for him to obtain food and strength, the Udumbara means food and strength : therefore it is of Udumbara wood.
34. It reaches up to his mouth,—for so far extends his strength : as great as his strength is, so great it (the staff) is when it reaches up to his mouth.
35. He makes it stand upright, with the text, 'Stand up, O tree, erect; guard me from injury on to the goal of this sacrifice!' whereby he means to say, 'Standing erect, protect me till the completion of this sacrifice!'
36. It is only now that some bend the fingers inward ? and restrain their speech, because, they argue, only from now will he not have to mutter anything. But let him not do so; for in like manner as if one were to try to overtake some one who runs away, but could not overtake him, so does he not overtake the sacrifice. Let him therefore turn in his fingers and restrain his speech on that (former) occasion.
37. And when the consecrated (after restraining his speech) utters either a rik, or a sâman, or a yagus 3,
That is, the womb from which he (the sacrificer) is born. * II, 1, 3, 25. · Viz. in muttering the formulas mentioned above, III, 2, 1, 5 seq.
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