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thinking themselves clever, take up the (guhd) with the right, and the upabhrit with the left (hand); but let him not do so; for if, in that case, any one were to say of him, 'Surely, this Adhvaryu has made the Sacrificer's spiteful enemy equal to him, and able to cope with him,' then that would indeed be likely to come to pass.
2. Let him rather do it in this way ;-having taken the guhd with both hands, let him lay it down on the upabhrit; there is no question about this : it is good for (securing) cattle and life. Let him take them up without clinking them together, — were he to let them clink together, insecurity of property would befall the Sacrificer: let him, therefore, take them up without clinking them together.
3. Now as to the stepping past (the Vedi). By a thunderbolt, indeed, one Adhvaryu scatters the Sacrificer's cattle, and by a thunderbolt another drives them together for him. Now that Adhvaryu, doubtless, scatters the Sacrificer's cattle by a thunderbolt, who steps past with his right (foot)' when he is
to make the second libation, as also prior to each of the two butterportions, to the first of the five fore-offerings, as well as before each of the chief offerings (when, however, portions of the respective sacrificial dishes are added to the ghee in the guhd), the Adhvaryu takes up the two spoons in the manner mentioned, viz. holding them together with both hands so as to be parallel to each other, the bowl of the guhd being just above that of the upabhrit without touch. ing it. While thus holding them he goes forward to the Ahavaniya, and, after the other necessary rites, pours the oblation from the guhů, over the spout of the upabhrit, into the fire. At the fourth foreoffering the ghee contained in the upabhrit is for the first time made use of, half of it being poured into the guhů for the last two fore-offerings, whilst the remainder is used for the after-offerings.
When the Adhvaryu betakes himself from his place behind the Vedi (on which the sacrificial material is laid out) to the Ahavanîya
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| SR No. | 007679 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 03 |
| 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 |