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.
and by those (kindling-verses) he thus gains these worlds, and these regions.
9. The first libation of ghee is the sacred law, and the second the truth; and, verily, he secures for himself law and truth, and whatsoever is to be gained by law and truth all that he now gains.
10. The first fore-offering is brilliance, the second honour, the third fame, the fourth holy lustre, the fifth food (prosperity).
11. After the first fore-offering let him utter (the anumantrana'), “May I become brilliant;' after the second, “May I become honoured ;' after the third, “May I become glorious ;' after the fourth, May I become endowed with holy lustre;' after the fifth, “May I become prosperous ;'-and, verily, whosoever knows this becomes brilliant, and honoured, and glorious, and endowed with holy lustre, and prosperous.
12. Now, Svetaketu Âruneya”, who knew this, said once,' To him who will thus know that glory of the fore-offerings, people will in days to come be flocking from all sides as if wishing to see some great serpent.'
13. The first butter-portion, doubtless, is the past, and the second the future: verily, he secures for himself both the past and the future; and whatever is to be gained by the past and the future, all that he now gains.
Each of the offering-formulas of the Prayagas has after it the anumantrana "might is speech, might is energy, in me the inbreathing and off-breathing ;' which, according to our paragraph (and Katy. III, 3, 5), is to be supplemented by these special prayers.
• See X, 3, 4, 1, with note.
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