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 KÂNDA, 6 ADHYÂYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 10. 409
with vigour, the Sacrificer thus repels evil from about him.
7. Last of all he seizes eight ;-the Gayatri consists of eight syllables, and the Gåyatri is the Brahman (n.): he thus makes the Brahman to be the ultimate thing of this universe, whence they say that the Brahman is the ultimate thing of this universe.
8. These (eight) are sacred to Praga pati, Pragâpati assuredly is the Brahman, for Pragâpati is of the nature of the Brahman': therefore they are sacred to Pragàpati.
9. When about to bring up the victims, he offers those three oblations to Savitri, with (Våg. S. XXX, 1-3), God Savitri, (speed the sacrifice, speed the lord of sacrifice unto his share)!"May we obtain that glorious light of the God Savitri, (who shall inspire our prayers)!'.
-'All troubles remove thou from us, O God Savitri; bestow unto us what is auspicious!' He thus pleases Savitri, and thus pleased with him, he (Savitri) impels (speeds) those (sacrificial) men, and he seizes them impelled by that (Savitri).
10. For the priesthood he seizes a Brahmana, for the Brahmana is the priesthood: he thus joins priesthood to priesthood ? ;-for the nobility he seizes a Råganya, for the Råganya is the nobility : he thus joins nobility to nobility ;-for the Maruts (he seizes) a Vaisya, for the Maruts are the clans (peasants): he thus joins peasantry to peasantry ;
That is, of the divine spirit, the world-soul, of which Pragapati is, as it were, the personification, or phenomenal representative.
* Or, he perfecta, completes, the priesthood by adding to it a member of) the priesthood.
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