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.
the obtainment of all the fires, Vaisvânara being all the fires ;-it is one of twelve potsherds, for twelve months are a year, and Vaisvânara is the year.
6. And, again, as to why he prepares one for Vaisvânara,—it is because he is about to produce Agni as Vaisvânara (belonging, or dear to, all men): in the initiation offering he first pours him forth as seed, and whatlike the seed is that is poured into the womb, suchlike is (the child) born therefrom; and inasmuch as he now pours forth that (Agni) Vaisvânara as seed, therefore he is born hereafter as Vaisvânara.
7. And why he prepares those two (other) oblations,—Vaisvânara is the ruling power, and that Aditya pap is the people: he thus makes both the ruling power and the people. The Vaisvanara (cake) he prepares first, and having thereby made the ruling power, he makes the people.
8. That (Vaisvânara cake) is one single (oblation), having one single deity: he thus makes the ruling power to be concentrated in one (person), and excellence to be concentrated in one. The other, the pap, has many deities, for the pap is a multiplicity of rice-grains, and those Adityas are a multiplicity of gods : he thus bestows multiplicity on the people. Thus much as to the deities.
9. Now as regards the self (or body of Agni). The Vaisvânara (cake) is the head, and that Åditya pap is the body: he thus makes both the head and the body. The Vaisvânara (cake) he prepares first; and having thereby made the head, he then makes the body.
10. That (Vaisvânara cake) is one single (oblation), for the head is, as it were, one only; and the
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