Satapatha Bramhana Part 03

SR No.: 007679
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 2382
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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VI. 96.
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tion to III, 30. The first two stanzas of this hymn recur at III, 8, 5. 6; the third is almost identical with V, 23, 1. Translated by Ludwig, Der Rigveda, III, 514.
COMMENTARY.
Stanza 2.
b. éte in the vulgata is a misprint (not accounted for in the Index Verborum because of the statement on p. 3). Shankar Pandit with all MSS., éta (Padapâtha, a ita), as in III, 8, 6.
Stanza 3.
For the stem óta (Padapâtha, a uta), cf. the note on V, 23, 1. Sâyana derives uta from the root vâ, to wit: ote âbhimukhyena samtate parasparam sambaddhe vå. But how about Sarasvatî in Pâda b?
VI, 96. COMMENTARY TO PAGE 44.
Dârila at Kaus. 31, 22-25 prescribes this charm for one seized by evil (pâpagrihîta). Kesava for the same, or for a dropsical person. Sâyana for one attacked by the curse of a Brahmana (brâhmanâkrose; cf. st. 2 a), or for a dropsical person. The stanzas and pâdas, however, betray the most undefined character, being compiled from various spheres (cf. RV. X, 97, 15. 16. 18; Tait. S. IV, 2, 6, 4 ; Vâg. S. XII, 90. 92; cf. also AV. VIII, 7, 28; XI, 6, 7; RV. X, 164, 3=AV. VI, 45, 2=Tait. Br. III, 7, 12, 4; Baudh. Dharmas. II, 4, 7, 18): the compilation is, in effect, a panacea. The practice of the Kausika consists in fumigating the sufferer with (the soma-branch) mentioned in the mantra (st. 1), which is burned, together with other plants; in giving him to drink a mixture of honey and udasvit (water and curds), a mixture of milk and udasvit, and, again, both these messes combined. The hymn is counted as one of the amholingagana (cf. st. 1) in the Ganamâlâ, Ath. Paris. 32, 32 (cf. Kaus. 32, 27, note); it has been translated by Ludwig, Der Rigveda, III, 506; Grill2, 38, 168. The Anukramani, vânaspatyam.
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