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V KÂNDA, 3 ADHYÂYA, 4 BRÂHMana, 24. 79
it is with cattle he thereby consecrates him. This is one kind of water: it is that he now brings.
20. He then takes clarified butter with, Allsupporting ye are, bestowers of kingship: bestow ye kingship on me, hail!-All-supporting ye are, bestowers of kingship: bestow ye kingship on N. N.!' With that (water) he sprinkles it is with the essence of cattle he thereby consecrates him. This is one kind of water: it is that he now brings.
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21. Having then caught up (moist) sun-motes with the hollow of his hands, he mixes them (with the other kinds of water), with, 'Self-ruling waters ye are, bestowers of kingship: bestow ye kingship on N. N.!' For those sun-motes are indeed self-ruling waters, since they are flowing, as it were, and, not yielding to one another's superiority, keep being now higher now lower: he thus thereby bestows self-ruling power upon him. This is one kind of water: it is that he now brings.
22. These then are seventeen (kinds of) water he brings together, for Pragâpati is seventeenfold, and Pragâpati is the sacrifice: that is why he brings together seventeen kinds of water.
23. Now sixteen kinds of water are those he offers upon; and he offers sixteen oblations: that makes thirty-two. On two of them he does not offer, viz. on the water from the Sarasvati and on the sunmotes that makes thirty-four. For three and thirty are the gods, and Pragâpati is the thirtyfourth he thus makes him to be Pragâpati (the lord of creatures).
24. And as to why he takes (water) each time after offering, the ghee, to be sure, is a thunder
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| SR No. | 007679 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 03 |
| 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 |