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.
2. They said, 'How comes it that our sacrifice was confounded, when we spread it on this (earth)? how is it that we know it not ?'
3. They said, 'In spreading the sacrifice on her, we have excluded her from the sacrifice: it is she that has confounded our sacrifice,—let us have recourse to her!'
4. They said, 'When we were spreading the sacrifice on thee, how was it that it became confounded, that we know it not ?'
5. She said, “While spreading the sacrifice on me, ye have excluded me from the sacrifice : that was why I have confounded your sacrifice. Set ye aside a share for me; then ye shall see the sacrifice, then ye shall know it!
6. 'So be it !' said the gods : ‘Thine, forsooth, shall be the opening (prâyaniya'), and thine the concluding (udayaniya) oblation! This is why both the Prầyaniya and the Udayaniya (pap) belong
1 At IV, 5, 1, 2, the name prâyaniya is derived from pra-i, to go forth, because by means of this offering they, as it were, go forth to buy the Soma. Similarly, udayaniya is explained as the offering he performs after coming out (ud-i) from the bath. In Ait. Br. I, 7, on the other hand, the name prâyaniya is explained as that by means of which sacrificers go forward (pra-i) to the heavenly world. In the Soma sacrifice, the Prayaniya and Udayanîya may be said to correspond to the Fore-offerings and After-offerings (prayâga and anuyâga) of the New and Full-moon Sacrifice; though, of course, the Fore- and After-offerings form part of the prâyaniya and udayanîyâ, as ishtis. But they are peculiar in this respect, that offering is made at both to the very same deities, and that the invitatory prayers (anuvákyâ) of the prâyaniyesh/i form the offering-prayers (yâgyá) of the udayanîyesh/i, and vice versa. For these formulas, see Asval. Srautas. IV, 3; Haug, Ait. Br. Transl. p. 16. The offering formula of the oblation to Aditi at the Prayanîya (and invitatory formula at the Udayaniya), strange to say, is not a Rik-verse, but one from the Atharvan (VII, 6, 2).
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