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.
case?' Having touched (the spilled milk) with the (formula of) expiation for spilling, and poured water on it, let him make offering with what (milk) is left. But if the bowl were to be turned upside down, or if it were to break, let him touch (the spilled milk) with the (formula of) expiation, and, having poured water on it, let him make offering with what other (milk) he can procure.
7. Now, in case there should be a spilling (of milk), let him touch it with, “It hath been shed, it hath been implanted: birth hath ensued;' for when (seed) is shed then it is implanted ; and when it is implanted then birth takes place. And, indeed, this (earth) is a womb, and the milk is seed : he thus implants seed in that womb, and forth with that shed seed of him who so knows this is born forth. And, indeed, it rains from yonder sky, and herbs and trees are produced here on earth; and seed flows from man and animals, and therefrom everything here is generated : let him therefore know that abundant production has accrued unto him, that he will be multiplied in offspring and cattle, and that he will become inore prosperous.
8. And in case there should be a breaking (of the vessel), let him pour out a bowlful or potful of water, and, indeed, whatever is injured or unpropitiated in the sacrifice, for all that water is the means of propitiation, and by water, as a means of propitiation, he thus propitiates it. He does so with these utterances, 'Bhûr bhuvah svar (earth, air, sky);' for these utterances are all-expiatory':
i Or, perhaps,—these (great) utterances are used with the Sarvaprayaskittam' (libation for expiating every mistakc). Accord ing to Kâty. XXV, 1, 10, five verses are also to be muttered after
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