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.
he thus stamps him down; and the wicked enemy does not lay hold of him.
THIRD BRAHMANA. 1. Even as some of the havis (offering-material) may be spilled before it is offered, so also (part) of the victim is here spilled in that they let loose the sprinkled (horse) before it is slain. When he offers the Stokiyâs (oblations of drops), he offers that (horse) as a complete offering '-so as to make good any spilling ? ; for unspilled is any (part of the offered (material) that is spilled. A thousand (oblations of drops) he offers for the obtainment of the heavenly world, for the heavenly world is equal in extent to a thousand.
2. Concerning this they say, "Were he to offer measured (a specified number of oblations), he would gain for himself something limited :' he offers unspecified (oblations) for the obtainment of the unlimited. And indeed Pragàpati spake, *Verily, upon the oblations of drops I establish the Asvamedha, and by it, when established, I pass upward from hence.'
3. [He offers, with Vâg. S. XXII, 6,] To Agni, hail!'--to Agni he thus offers it (the horse 3);'to Soma, hail!'— to Soma he thus offers it ;-to the joy of the waters, hail!'-to the waters he thus offers it;—to Savitri, hail!'-to Savitri
Cf. I, 1, 4, 3; 3, 3, 16 seqq.; IV, 2, 5, 1 seqq. ? Lit., for non-spilling, i.e. to neutralise any spilling that may have taken place.
s Harisvâmin seems rather to lay the stress on the direct object :-agnaye param evasvam guhoti na kevalam agyam. The context, however, does not admit of this interpretation.
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