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.
EIGHTH BRAHMANA. 1. Verily, in the beginning, Pragàpati alone was here. He desired, “May I exist, may I be generated.' He wearied himself and performed fervid devotions: from him, thus wearied and heated, the three worlds were created—the earth, the air, and the sky.
2. He heated these three worlds, and from them, thus heated, three lights (gyotis) were producedAgni (the fire), he who blows here (Vayu), and Sarya (the sun).
3. He heated these three lights, and from them, thus heated, the three Vedas were produced—the Rig-veda from Agni, the Yagur-veda from Vayu, and the Sâma-veda from Sarya.
4. He heated these three Vedas, and from them, thus heated, three luminous essences were pro
the preceding chapters which represent the daily study of the scriptural lesson as a sacrifice continued day by day. The student, as the sacrificer, has accordingly, during the sacrifice (that is, during the period of his study of the Vedas, or for life), as it were, to limit his daily food to the drinking of the Vrata-milk, which rule he obeys symbolically by reciting such a verse or formula.
'? Sâyana takes 'sukra' here in the sense of 'flame, light' (vyâhritir@pâni tegâmsi); whilst the St. Petersb. Dict. assigns to it the meaning of 'sap, juice' (Saft, Seim, cf. next note). Ait. Br. V, 32, contains a very similar passage in which the same process of evolution is set forth :-Pragapati first creates the three worlds, earth, air, and heaven. From them, being heated by him, three lights (8yotis) are produced—Agni from the earth, Vậyu from the air, and Aditya from the sky (or heaven). From them, being heated, the three Vedas are produced—the Rig-veda from Agni, the Yagur-veda from Vâyu, and the Sâma-veda from Aditya. From the Vedas, being heated, three flames (sukra, luminaries, Haug) are produced-Bhůh from the Rig-veda, Bhuvah from the Yagur.
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