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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
verses containing the words “log” and “ghee": the fire which shall result therefrom will be that very fire (which is required).'
15. They said, 'But that is recondite (esoteric), as it were. Make thyself rather an upper arani 1 of Asvattha wood, and a lower arani of Sami wood: the fire which shall result therefrom will be that very fire.
16. They said, “But that also is, as it were, recondite. Make thyself rather an upper arani of Asvattha wood, and a lower arani of Asvattha wood : the fire which shall result therefrom will be that very fire.'
17. He then made himself an upper arani of Asvattha wood, and a lower arani of Asvattha wood; and the fire which resulted therefrom was that very fire: by offering therewith he became one of the Gandharvas. Let him therefore make himself an upper and a lower arani of Asvattha wood, and the fire which results therefrom will be that very fire : by offering therewith he becomes one of the Gandharvas.
Second BRÂHMANA. THE SEASONAL SACRIFICES (Kâturmåsya). 1. By means of the Seasonal sacrifices, Pragàpati fashioned for himself a body. The sacrificial food for the Vaisvadeva? sacrifice he made to be this
That is, a churning-stick used for producing fire; see part i, p. 275; P. 294, note 3
The Vaisvadeva, or first of the four seasonal sacrifices, requires the following oblations :- 1. a cake on eight potsherds to Agni; 2. a pap to Soma; 3. a cake on twelve or eight potsherds to
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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 |