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.
trickling through, he stands by worshipping with the three verses 1 of the Pitarah Somavantah (the Fathers accompanied by Soma), with three verses of the Pitaro Barishadah (the Fathers seated on the barhis), and with three verses of the Pitaro Agnishvâttâh (the Fathers consumed by the fire). And as to why he thus stands by worshipping, when Soma flowed through Indra, what part of it then went to the Fathers—there being three kinds of Fathers—therewith he now supplies him and makes him whole: therefore he thus stands by worshipping.
29. He then prepares those oblations ,--a cake on twelve or eight potsherds for Savitri, a barley pap for Varuna, and a cake on eleven potsherds for Indra.
30. And why there is one for Savitri,—Savitri is the impeller of the gods, and impelled by Savitri he now heals 8: therefore there is one for Savitri.
1 These triplets to the Fathers are given Våg. S. XIX, 49-51; 55-57; 58-60.–The Taitt. ritual here has a curious variation. After the remainder of the (pure) liquor has been offered to the Fathers, a Brâhman is to be bought over to drink the dregs; and if such an one cannot be found (willing to do it), they are to be poured away on an ant-hill. This is to be done for the sake of atonement.
? That is, according to Kâtyâyana (XV, 10, 19) and Sayana, the pasu-purodâ sa, or cakes of the animal offering. The performance of these is irregular, inasmuch as their deities are not the same as those of the animal sacrifice (the Asvins, Sarasvatî, and Indra Sutraman). Taitt. Br. I, 8, 6, 1, however, explains that in this case the animal sacrifices are without animal cakes,' the libations of liquor, which indeed are offered to the same deities, being in lieu of them.
* The object of the Sautrâmanî offering is to heal or 'make whole' the Sacrificer.
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