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.
failing!'-(Rig-veda S. III, 13, 6), ‘Favour thou our prayer, as the best invoker of the gods for our hymns: blaze up auspiciously for us, wind-fanned, O Agni, the dispenser of a thousand bounties!'
20. Now, indeed, it was Gotama Râhûgana who discovered this (sacrifice). It went away to Ganaka of Videha, and he searched for it in the Brâhmanas versed in the Angas? (limbs of the Veda), and found it in Yâgñavalkya. He said, 'A thousand we give thee, O Yågñavalkya, in whom we have found that Mitravinda. He finds (vind) Mitra, and his is the kingdom, he conquers recurring deaths and gains all life, whosoever, knowing this, performs this sacrifice; or whosoever thus knows it.
Fourth BRÂHMANA. 1. Now, as to the successful issue of the sacrificial food. Now, indeed, there are six doors to the Brahman »,—to wit, fire, wind, the waters, the moon, lightning, and the sun.
2. He who offers with slightly burnt sacrificial food, enters through the fire-door of the Brahman;
? That is, the Vedângas, ie. the limbs, or supplementary sciences, of the Veda.
That is to say, his approaching death will deliver him once for all from mundane existence and its constantly repeated round of birth and death.
• That is, of the impersonal) world-spirit.
• In the text the two words are not compounded, but stand in apposition to each other (with the fire as the door of B.), with, however, much the same force as a compound word. Cf. XII, 2, 1, 2 gadham (eva) pratishtha (a foothold consisting of a ford), and ib. 9 gâdha-pratishtha, 'ford-foothold.'
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