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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IX KÂNDA, 2 ADHYAYA, 3 BRÂHMANA, 28.
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25. 'Go thou forth to the eastern quarter, knowing!'--the eastern quarter, doubtless, is Agni's: thus,‘To thine own quarter go thou forth, knowing!
- be thou Agni's fore-fire here, O Agni! that is, 'Of this Agni (kitya) be thou, O Agni, the fore-fire?!'—'Shine thou, illumining all regions!'—that is, 'shine thou, illuminating every · region!'-'Grant thou food to our iwo-footed and four-footed one!' he thereby invokes a blessing.
26. From the earth have I ascended the air; from the air have I ascended the sky;' — for from the Garhapatya they go to the Agnidhriya, and from the Agnidhriya to the Åhavaniya ;—'from the sky, the back of the firmament, have I gone to heaven, to the light;'—that is, 'from the sky, the back of the firmament, have I gone to the heavenly world.'
27. 'The heaven-going look not round, they ascend the heaven, the two worlds,'—those who go to the heavenly world do not indeed look round 2; 'the wise who performed the all-sustaining sacrifice,'--for that sacrifice is indeed all-sustainings, and they who perform it are indeed wise.
28. 'Go forward, Agni, first of the godwardgoing,'-he thereby says to this Agni (that is carried forward), 'Go thou forward, as the first of these godward-going ones;'—'the eye of the gods
Mahîdhara takes "puro'gni' in the sense of fore-goer (puras agre angati gakkhati).
? That is, according to Mahîdhara, they think not of their sons, cattle, &c.
* Thus Mahîdhara takes visvatodhára;''flowing in every direction' (visvato + dhârå), St. Petersb. Dict.
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