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, 2 ADHYÂYA, 3 BRÂHMANA, 3.
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delivered from that death. And the sacrifice, indeed, becomes his body: thus, having become the sacrifice, he is delivered from that death, and all his chief offerings are thereby delivered from that death?
6. And, verily, whatever offering he there performs, that offering becomes his body in yonder world; and when he who knows this departs this world then that offering, being behind him, calls out to him, 'Come hither, here I am, thy body;' and inasmuch as it calls out invokes, ähvayati), it is called 'ahuti' (offering or invocation).
THIRD BRÂHMANA. 1. Verily, in the beginning, this (universe) was the Brahman (neut.)? It created the gods; and, having created the gods, it made them ascend these worlds: Agni this (terrestrial) world, Vậyu the air, and Surya the sky.
2. And the deities who are above these he made ascend the worlds which are above these ; and, indeed, just as these (three) worlds and these (three) deities are manifest, so are those (higher) worlds and those (higher) deities manifest—(the worlds) which he made those deities ascend.
3. Then the Brahman itself went up to the sphere beyond. Having gone up to the sphere beyond, it considered, “How can I descend again into these worlds?' It then descended again by means of these two-Form and Name. Whatever has a name,
Viz. inasmuch as the oblation is made with the Vashat. ? On this speculative myth, see John Muir, Orig. S. Texts, vol. v, pp. 387-89.
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