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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VI KÂNDA, I ADHYAYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 26.
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•Then I will enter into him, when whole,' he said. — "So be it!' they said. Hence, while being Pragapati, they yet call him Agni.
22. In the fire the gods healed him by means of oblations; and whatever oblation they offered that became a baked brick and passed into him. And because they were produced from what was offered (ishta), therefore they are bricks (ishtaka). And hence they bake the bricks by means of the fire, for it is oblations they thus make.
23. He spake, 'Even as much as ye offer, even so much is my happiness :' and inasmuch as for him there was happiness (ka) in what was offered (ishta), therefore also they are bricks (ishtaka).
24. Here now Åktākshya used to say, 'Only he who knows abundant bricks possessed of (special) prayers, should build up the fire (altar): abundantly indeed he then heals Father Pragâpati.'
25. But Tândya used to say, 'Surely the bricks possessed of prayers are the nobility, and the spacefillers are the peasants; and the noble is the feeder, and the peasantry the food ; and where there is abundant food for the feeder, that realm is indeed prosperous and thrives : let him therefore pile up abundant space-fillers!' Such then was the speech of those two, but the settled practice is different therefrom.
26. Now that father (Pragâpati) is (also) the son : 1
* In contradistinction to the yag ushmatî (prayerful) bricks, which bear special names, and have special formulas attached to them; lokam-prina (space-filling ones) is the technical term for those bricks which have no special prayers belonging to them, but are piled up with a common formula (Vâg. S. XII, 54; Sat. Br. VIII, 7,2, 1 seq.), beginning 'lokam prina khidram prina,'' fill the space, fill the gap!
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