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.
Fourth BRÂHMANA. 1. Verily, the horse is slaughtered for all the deities: were he to make it one belonging to Pragàpati (exclusively), he would deprive the deities who are co-sharers of their share. Having made ghee (to take the part of) portions (of the horse's body) he makes oblations to the deities in mentioning them one by one with (Vâg. S. XXV, 1-9), 'The Grass (I gratify) with the teeth, the Lotus with the roots of the hair, ...:' the deities who are co-sharers he thus supplies with their share. When he has offered the Aranye nakya (oblations) ?, he offers the last oblation to
1 These oblations of ghee, apparently amounting to 132,are made, after the principal flesh-portions have been offered, viz. in the interval between the ghee oblation to Vanaspati (the lord of the forest, or the plant, Soma) and the Svishtakrit oblation, for which see part ii, pp. 208–9; each formula, as a rule, containing the name of some divinity, and that of some part of the body of the horse supposed to be represented by the ghee (by four ladlings of which the offering spoon is filled each time). Mahîdhara, apparently in accordance with the Brahmana, supplies 'prînâmi (I gratify) with each (complete) formula which then concludes with svåhå (hail)! According to other authorities, however, these formulas are each to be divided into two separate dedicatory formulas : To the Grass hail! To the Teeth hail!' &c.—The last of the 132 oblations (with the formula, .To Gumbaka, hail !') is, however, withheld for the present to be offered (or perhaps the formula alone is to be muttered) at the end of the purificatory bath (avabhritha) towards the end of the sacrifice on the third day.
The term 'aranye - nükya' (' to be recited in the forest ') we met before (IX, 3, 1, 24) as applying to the last of seven cakes offered to the Maruts immediately after the installation of Agni (the sacred fire) on the newly-built altar. The formula used for that cake is the so-called Vimukha-verse, Våg. S. XXXIX, 7. This
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