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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XIII KANDA, I ADHYAYA, 6 BRAHMANA, I. 287
Brahmana sings1; for to the Brahmana belongs
the fulfilment of wishes 2: it is with the fulfilment of wishes he (the Brâhmana) thus endows him (the Sacrificer). Such war he waged, such battle he won!' such (are the topics about which) the Raganya sings; for the battle is the Râganya's strength it is with strength he thus endows him. Three stanzas the one sings, and three stanzas the other, they amount to six,-six seasons make up a year he thus establishes (the Sacrificer) in the seasons, in the year. To both of them he presents a hundred; for man has a life of a hundred (years), and a hundred energies; it is vitality and energy, vital power, he confers upon him.
SIXTH BRAHMANA.
1. [The Adhvaryu and Sacrificer whisper in the right ear of the horse, Vag. S. XXII, 193] 'Plenteous by the mother, strengthful by the father,'-its mother, doubtless, is this (earth), and its father yonder (sky): it is to these two he commits it; a horse thou art, a steed thou art,' he thereby instructs it, whence clever subjects (or children) are born to him;—'a courser (atya) thou art, a charger thou art,' he therewith leads it beyond (ati), whence the horse goes beyond (surpasses) other animals, and whence the horse attains to pre-eminence among animals;—'a runner thou art, a racer thou art, a prize-winner thou
1 Cf. XIII, 4, 2, 8.
• The author apparently takes 'ishtâpurta' in the sense of either 'sacrifice and fulfilment,' or 'the fulfilment of (the objects of) sacrifice.' Cf. Weber, Ind. Stud. IX, p. 319; X, p. 96.
See XIII, 4, 2, 15.
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