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.
him know that the two libations of ghee are his mind and speech, Sarasvat and Sarasvati.
4. The five fore-offerings are these its five (outlets of the) vital airs in the head ;-the first foreoffering is its mouth, the second the right nostril, the third the left nostril, the fourth the right ear, and the fifth the left ear. And inasmuch as at the fourth fore-offering he pours together (the ghee), therefore this ear is, on the inner side, connected by a channel (with the other). The two butterportions are the eyes : let him know that these are his own eyes.
5. And that cake which is offered to Agni is its right flank; and the low-voiced offering is its heart; and inasmuch as they perform this in a low voice, this heart is, as it were, in secret.
6. And that cake which is offered to Agni and Sonia (at full moon), or Indra's Sånnayya (at new moon), is its left flank; the Svishtakrit is that part between its shoulders; and the (Brahman's) foreportion” is the poison?
7. And when he cuts off the fore-portion,-even as there they cut out what was injured* in Pragâpati, so do they now thereby cut out what in this (body) is clogged and hardened, and affected by Varuna :
See 1, 5, 3, 16.
· See I, 7, 4, 10 seqq. | Instead of visham,' the MS. of Sâyana's commentary reads dvishan' (hater, enemy), which is explained as meaning 'satrubuddhi'; the cutting out' of the fore-portion being compared with the annihilation of enemies (satrunirasanârtham),--all this is, however, manifestly fanciful. What is intended would seem to be the poison (real or figurative) caused by the enemies' (or Rudra's, or Varuna's) shafts, in accordance with the myth regarding Pragapati and his daughter, I, 7, 4, I seqq.
• Literally, what was pierced (by an arrow), cf. I, 7, 4, 3. 9.
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