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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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
13. Let him also cure by this (ceremony) one purged by Soma ;-he whom Soma purges is indeed emptied out of everything, for Soma is everything. He now causes him to be supplied with everything, for Soma is everything; and by offering he indeed becomes better : let him therefore cure thereby also one purged by Soma.
14. And as to why the performer of the Râgasůya performs this offering. He who performs the Râgasûya assuredly gains for himself all sacrificial rites, all offerings, even the spoonful-oblations; and instituted by the gods indeed is this offering, the Sautrâmant : May offering be made by me with this one also ! may I be consecrated by this one also !' thus (he thinks, and) therefore the performer of the Râgasûya performs this offering.
15. And as to why there is a victim) for the Asyins,—it was the Asvins who cured him; and in like manner does he (the priest) now cure him through those same Asvins : that is why there is (a victim) for the Asvins.
16. And why there is one for Sarasvati --Sarasvati assuredly is speech, and it was by speech that the Asvins cured him; and in like manner does he now cure him by speech : that is why there is one for Sarasvati.
17. And why there is one for Indra,—Indra assuredly is the deity of the sacrifice, and it is by this (offering) that he now heals him : this is why there is one for Indra.
18. On (the meat-portions of) those victims he throws hairs of a lion, hairs of a wolf, and hairs of a tiger, for that was what sprang therefrom, when Soma flowed right through him. He now supplies
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