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.
17. And as to why there are eleven of them, the Trishtubh consists of eleven syllables, and the Trishtubh is the thunderbolt, and vigour: with the thunderbolt, with vigour, the Sacrificer thus repels evil from within. The Traidhatavf is the final offering (Udavasânlyà) : the mystic import is the same (as before ').
18. Now as to the sacrificial fees. What there is towards the middle of the kingdom other than the land and the property of the Brahmana, but including the men, of that the eastern quarter belongs to the Hotri, the southern to the Brahman, the western to the Adhvaryu, and the northern to the Udgåtri; and the Hotrikas share this along with them.
19. And if a Brahmana performs the sacrifice, he should bestow all his property in order to obtain and secure everything, for the Brahmana is everything, and all one's property is everything, and the Purushamedha is everything.
20. And having taken up the two fires within his own self?, and worshipped the sun with the Uttara-Narayana (litany, viz. Vág. S. XXXI, 1722), let him betake himself to the forest without looking round; and that (place), indeed, is apart from men. But should he wish to live in the village, let him take up again the two fires in the churning-sticks, and having worshipped the sun with the Uttara-Narayana (litany) let him dwell at his home, and let him offer such sacrifices as he may
· Viz. as set forth V, 5, 5, 6 seqq.
• Viz. by thrice inhaling the heat (or smoke) emitted by the fires. Cf. Mânava-Dh. VI, 38; Baudhåyana-Dharmas, II, 17, 26.
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