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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XI KÂNDA, I ADHYÂYA, 6 BRÂHMANA, 9.
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speak at the end of a year, for at the end of a year Pragâpati tried to speak.
4. When he was first speaking Pragåpati spoke (words) of one syllable and of two syllables; whence a child, when first speaking, speaks (words) of one syllable and of two syllables.
5. These (three words consist of) five syllables : he made them to be the five seasons, and thus there are these five seasons. At the end of the (first) year, Pragâpati rose to stand on these worlds thus produced ; whence a child tries to stand up at the end of a year, for at the end of a year Pragàpati stood up.
6. He was born with a life of a thousand years: even as one might see in the distance the opposite shore, so did he behold the opposite shore (the end) of his own life.
7. Desirous of offspring, he went on singing praises and toiling. He laid the power of reproduction into his own self. By (the breath of) his mouth he created the gods: the gods were created on entering the sky; and this is the godhead of the gods (deva) that they were created on entering the sky (div). Having created them, there was, as it were, daylight for him; and this also is the godhead of the gods that, after creating them, there was, as it were, daylight (diva) for him.
8. And by the downward breathing he created the Asuras : they were created on entering this earth. Having created them there was, as it were, darkness for him.
9. He knew, Verily, I have created evil for myself since, after creating, there has come to be, as it were, darkness for me. Even then he smote
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