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.
Savitri purify!' along the west side towards the south; with, With Agni's lustre!' along the south side towards the east; with, With Surya's brilliance!' along the front side towards the north.
7. Four furrows he ploughs with a formula: he thereby establishes him in whatever food there is in the four quarters. And (as to why it is done) with a formula, certain, assuredly, is the sacrificial formula (yagus), and certain are these quarters.
8. He then ploughs across the body (of the sepulchral site) —he thereby establishes him in whatever food there is in the year'-silently with (an) undefined (number of furrows), for undefined is yonder world.
9. Having performed the work for which he has put the team to that (plough), he now unfastens it: 'Let the oxen be unyoked!' he says, for it is for that work that the oxen were yoked. To the right (south) side: he removes this (plough and team), to the left (side) any other: he thus keeps the divine separate from what belongs to the Fathers.
THIRD BRÂHMANA. 1. He then sows (seed) of all (kinds of) herbs: what the all-herb (seed signified) on that occasion, that (it does) here. With many (verses *) he sows
* The Sacrificer's body (trunk) or self, like that of Pragapati, is as usual identified with the year (Father Time).
• Or rather to the south-west side, whilst at the Agnitayana (VII, 2, 2, 21) it was done towards the north-east.
• Viz. that it means food of every kind, see VII, 2, 4, 14.
• Viz. with fifteen verses (VII, 2, 4, 15 seqq.) of which the one here used formed part (part iii, p. 340, note a, verse 5).
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