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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
exceeds the womb, becomes useless; and what is deficient, is unsuccessful; but that part of the seed which is within the hole is successful. Four-cornered is this hole, for there are four quarters: from all the (four) quarters he thus digs him.
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FOURTH ADHYAYA. FIRST BRAHMANA.
1. He now digs it (the lump of clay)1 up from that (hole);-for the gods, having found him (Agni), then dug him up; and in like manner this one, after finding him, now digs him up,-with (Vâg. S. XI, 28), 'At the impulse of the god Savitri, by the arms of the Asvins, by the hands of Pûshan, I dig thee, the Agni Purtshya, from the lap of the earth, Angiras-like;'-impelled by Savitri, he thus, by means of those deities, digs him up, the Agni favourable to cattle, as Agni (did).
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2. 'Thee, O Agni, the bright, the fairfaced,' for this Agni is indeed bright and fairfaced; 'glowing with perpetual sheen,'-that is, shining with perpetual light;'-'thee, kind to creatures, and never harming, the Agni Purishya we dig up from the lap of the earth, Angiras-like;'-that is, 'thee, kind to creatures, and never harming, the cattle-loving Agni we dig up from the lap of the earth, as Agni (did).'
3. With two (formulas) he digs,-two-footed is the Sacrificer, and the Sacrificer is Agni: as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, with so much he thus digs him up. And twofold also is that form of his, (consisting as it does of) clay and water.
4. He digs, with, ' I dig,'-' we dig;' for with, 'I
'Or him, Agni; the identity of the two being kept up through
out.
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| SR No. | 007679 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 03 |
| 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 |