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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VI KÂNDA, 4 ADHYÂYA, 3 BRÂHMANA, 5.
2. [Vâg. S. XI, 38] 'Let flow the divine waters, the honey-sweet, for health, for progeny!'-honey means sap (essence): thus, 'the sapful, for health, for progeny; '-'from their seed let plants spring forth, full-berried!' for fullberried plants indeed spring forth from the seat of the waters.
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3. He then heals her with air1; for whatever is injured and torn in this earth that is healed by the air: by means of air he thus joins together and heals what is injured and torn in her.
4. [Vâg. S. XI, 39] 'May Vâyu Mâtarisvan heal,'-Vâyu Mâtarisvan, doubtless, is he (the wind) that blows yonder ;-'the broken heart of thee stretched out with upward look!' for this (hole) is the broken heart of this earth stretched out with upward look;-thou who goest along by the breath of the gods,'-for he (the wind) indeed goes along by means of the breath of all the gods;
to thee, Ka, be vashat (success), O god!'-Ka ('Who?') doubtless is Pragâpati, for him he makes this earth to be the Vashat, for there is so far no other oblation than that.
5. He then heals her by means of the quarters, for whatever is injured and torn in this earth, that is healed by the quarters: by means of the quarters he thus draws and joins together what is injured and torn in her. He joins together this and this quarter 2, whence these two quarters are joined
1 Viz. by fanning air into the hole with the hand.
With his 'nameless' (or little) finger, he pushes some of the loose soil into the hole, first from the front (east) and back (west) sides, and then from the right (south) and left (north) sides. Thus, according to Kâty. XVI, 3, 4, the sunwise movement is
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