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-BRÂHMANA.
knowing this, once said, 'I am now going to get myself initiated for one year. His father, looking at him, said, 'Knowest thou, long-lived one, the fordingfootholds of the year ? '-'I know them,' he replied, for, indeed, he said this as one knowing it.
SECOND BRAHMANA. 1. Here, now, they say, 'Whereby are the Abhiplavas possessed of light (gyotis) on both sides ?,
1 The difference between the Abhiplava-shada ha and the Prishthya-sha daha was thus explained in part iii, introd., p. xxi, note 2 :- In both kinds of shadaha, the Prishtha-stotras (at the Madhyandina-savana) are performed in the ordinary way--viz. either in the Agnishtoma or the Ukthya way (see ib., p. xvi, note 2, as the correct reference is);—but whilst, in the Abhiplavashada ha, the Rathantara and Brihat-sâmans are used for the Holri's Prishtha-stotra on alternate days, the Prishthya-shadaha requires a different Prishtha-saman on each of the six days. The two kinds of shadahas also differ entirely in regard to the sequence of Stomas prescribed for the performance of the Stotras.' It is this difference in the sequence of Stomas' which is referred to in our passage. On the six days of the Abhiplava-sha daha, the sequence of Stomas (the first four of which, viz. Trivrit, Partkadasa, Saptadasa, and Ekavimsa, are only used) varies from day to day in this way: 1. Gyotishtoma; 2. Goshtoma; 3. Ayushtoma; 4. Goshtoma ; 5. Âyushtoma ; 6. Gyotishłoma (for the difference between these, see part iv, p. 287, note 2). It will thus be seen that the Abhiplava has the gyotih (stoma)' on both sides, on the first and the last days. For the Hotri's Prishtha-stotra on these successive days the Raihantara-saman and Brihat-såman are used; and, as the Goshtoma and Ayushtoma are Ukthya-days, the usual practice which requires the Brihat-sâman for such days, is not followed; just as the final Gyotishtoma in this case requires the Brihat-saman. -As regards the Prishthya-shadaha, each successive day requires for its stotras a single Stoma, in the ascending order : Trivrit, Pañkadasa, Saptadasa, Ekavimsa, Trinava, Trayastrimsa ; --a different Prishtha-saman being used for the Hotri's Prishtha
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