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.
may we prosper'!' he takes a kindling-stick, for a kindler of Agni (the fire) the kindling-stick indeed is. With, ‘Enkindling thou art, fire thou art: lay thou fire into me!' he puts the kindling-stick on the Åhavaniya : he thereby kindles the fire, and, thus kindled, it kindles him with fire (energy)?
11. Being about to offer a pap to Aditis, he prepares it: Aditi being this (earth), he who offers Aditi's (pap) performs the sacrifice on this (earth), and by offering firmly establishes himself thereon. The sacrificial fee is a milch cow (with calf): the milch cow being this earth), he milks out from the latter all his desires. The calf he gives away at the former (pap-offering to Aditi“), and the mothercow at the latter; for when a calf sucks the mothercow, the latter gives milk when she is given away, and from her, when given away, he thus milks all his desires.
12. As to this they say, 'Surely, he who goes down to the water for the purificatory bath falls away from this world!' Well, when he has come out from the bath, he offers a dish of curds to Mitra and Varuna ; now Mitra is this (terrestrial) world,
1 The text of the formula .edhos sy edhishîmahi' is evidently meant to suggest a connection (real or alliterative) between edha' (root indh') and the final verb (root edh').
. According to Katy. XIX, 5, 20, and Mahîdhara, he now offers on the kindling-stick an oblation of ghee, with the text, Vág. S. XX, 23, Hither come the earth, the dawn, the sun, and all this world.
* See p. 213, note 2.
• This offering takes place at the beginning of the performance of the Sautrâmanî, cf. Katy. Sr. XIX, 1, 5-10. The dish of curds which according to this paragraph is to follow the second pap to Aditi, may, according to Katyâyana, be offered before it.
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