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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VI KÂNDA, 2 ADHYAYA, I BRÂHMANA, 24.
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obtained: thus then that complete five-bricked fire of his is gained in the animals.
21. For these (victims) there are twenty-four kindling-verses ; for the year consists of twentyfour half-moons, and Agni is the year : as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, by so much! he thus kindles him.
22. And, again, why there are twenty-four,--the Gayatri consists of twenty-four syllables, and Agni is Gayatra ?: as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, by so much he thus kindles him.
23. And, again, why there are twenty-four,-mani (purusha) doubtless is twenty-fourfold : ten fingers of the hands, ten toes, and four limbs ; and Praga. pati is the Purusha, and Pragàpati is Agni: as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, by so much he thus kindles him.
24. He recites both gâyatri and trishtubh verses ; for the gâyatri metre is the vital air, and the trishtubh is the body (self): by the gayatri verses he thus kindles his vital air, and by the trishtubh ones the body. The trishtubh verses are in the middle, and the gayatri verses on both sides thereof; for this body is in the middle, and the (organs of) the vital airs are on the sides thereof. He pronounces more gayatri verses before, and fewer after (the
For the eleven gâyatrî verses, used as sâmidhenîs at an ordinary ishti--and raised to the number of fifteen by repetitions of the first and last verses—see part i, p. 102. The present animal' sacrifice (ishtaka-pasu) adds to these verses nine trishtubh verses (Vâg. S. XXVII, 1-9), which (according to Kâty. XVI, 1, 11) are to be inserted between the two verses containing the words 'samidhyamâna' (being kindled) and 'samiddha' (kindled) respectively, - that is, between the ninth and tenth of the normal or gâyatrî kindling-verses (cf. I, 4, 1, 38).
See VI, 1, 1, 15; 3, 19.
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