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, 2 ADHYAYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 7.
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4. When the sun has set, he breaks silence. Now Pragâpati is the year, since the sacrifice is Pragàpati; and the year is day and night, since these two revolving produce it. He has been consecrated during the day, and he has gained the night: as great as the sacrifice is, as great as is its extent, to that extent has he gained it before he breaks silence.
5. Some, however, make him break his silence on seeing the (first) star", arguing that then the sun has actually set. But let him not do so, for what would become of them if it were cloudy? Let him therefore break silence as soon as he thinks the sun has set.
6. Now, some make him break silence by the formula, 'Earth! ether! sky!' arguing that thereby they strengthen the sacrifice, they heal the sacrifice. But let him not do so; for he who breaks silence with that (formula) does not strengthen the sacrifice, does not heal the sacrifice.
7. Let him rather break silence with this one (Vág. S. IV, 11), Prepare ye the fast-food! prepare ye the fast-food! [prepare ye the fastfood!] Agni is the Brahman, Agni is the sacrifice; the tree is meet for the sacrifice.' For this indeed is his sacrifice, this is his havis-offering at this (rite of consecration), even as the Agnihotra was heretofore? In thus preparing the (Soma) sacrifice by means of the sacrifice, he establishes the sacrifice
1 After pointing out (some) stars [nakshatrâni darsayitva];' Kârva recension. Cf. Taitt. S. VI, 1, 4, 4, when the stars have risen, he breaks silence with “ Prepare the fast-food !"
? That is to say, the eating of the fast-food, consisting chiefly of milk, takes, as it were, the place of the Agnihotra, or evening and morning sacrifice, which he is not allowed to perform during the time of his consecration.
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