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.
forms: it is for the obtainment of that form of Agni (that palâsa resin is used).
2. He pours it on (the clay), with (Vâg. S. XI, 50-52; Rik S. X, 9, 1–3), ‘Refreshing ye are, O waters1!' To whatever deity a Rik-verse, and to whatever deity a Yagus formula applies, that Rik-verse is that very deity, and that Yagus formula is that very deity: hence this triplet (XI, 50-52) is these waters, and they are those very waters which appeared as one form 2: that form he now makes it.
3. He then produces foam and puts it thereto : the second form which was created (in the shape of) foam, that form he thus makes it. And the clay he now mixes is that very clay which was created as the third form. It was from these forms that he (Agni) was created at the beginning, and from them he now produces him.
4. He then mixes it with the goat's hair, just for the sake of firmness. And as to why with goat's hair, the gods then collected him (Agni) from out of the cattle, and in like manner does this one now collect him from out of the cattle. And as to why with goat's hair, it is because in the he-goat (is contained) the form of all cattle; and as to its being hair, form is hair.
5. [Vâg. S. XI, 53] 'Mitra having mixed the earth and ground with light,'-Mitra doubtless
The whole triplet runs thus: 'Refreshing ye are, O waters; lead us to strength, to see great joy !-whatever is your most benign sap, therein let us share, like loving mothers -For you we will readily go to him, to whose abode ye urge us, O waters, and quicken us.'
See VI, I, I, 12.
8 VI, I, I, 13.
That is, the hair of cattle is the most obvious characteristic of their outward appearance.
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