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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XII KÂNDA, 9 ADHYAYA, 3 BRAHMANA, 12. 271
9. Now, the fore-offerings had been performed, but the fire had not been carried round? (the oblations), when the Asuras came after him. By means of the circumambient fire the gods shut out their hostile rivals, the Asuras, from Yagña (the sacrifice); and in like manner does this one now, by means of the circumambient fire, shut out his spiteful enemy from the sacrifice.
10. Verily, that Åhavaniya is the womb (seat) of the gods, and those two fires 2 on either side thereof are its immortal wings: thus, when they perform the sacrifice on the Ahavanfya, they indeed perform the sacrifice for the gods in the womb of the gods; and, verily, the continued sacrifice inclines to him, and the sacrifice is not cut off from him who thus knows this, or for whom, knowing this, this sacrificial rite is performed.
11. On the northern fire they offer (libations from) the cups of milk, on the northern fire they cook the sacrificial animals : the sacrificial animals, whilst being mortal, he thus places in the immortal womb, and them that are mortal he causes to be born (again) from out of the immortal womb; and, verily, whosoever thus knows this, or he for whom, knowing this, this sacrificial rite is performed, wards off the recurring death of his cattle, and the sacrifice is not cut off from him.
12. On the southern fire they offer (libations from) the cups of Sura-liquor, near the southern fire
On the ceremony called "paryagnikaranam,' see part i, p. 145, note; part ii, p. 187, note.
* See p. 225, note 1. Properly speaking, the two fires of the two special Vedis are in front (or, rather, north-east and south-east) of the Ahavaniya.
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