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 ghee the outer membrane, and the kindling-stick the embryo.
16. The pan is outside, and the reed-grass (fuel) is inside ; for the body is outside, and the womb inside. The reed-grass is outside, and the hemp inside ; for the womb is outside, and the outer membrane is inside. The hemp is outside, and the ghee is inside ; for the outer membrane is outside, and the inner membrane is inside. The ghee is outside, and the kindling-stick is inside ; for the inner membrane is outside, and the embryo is inside. It is from these that he who is born is born, and from them he thus causes him (Agni) to be born.
THIRD BRÂHMANA. 1. He then puts on a vikankata (flacourtia sapida) one. When Pragâ pati performed the first offering, a vikankata tree sprang forth from that place where, after offering, he cleansed (his hands). That vikankata, then, is that first offering; it is that he now offers on this (fire), and he therewith gratifies him (Agni). [Vâg. S. XI, 71; Rik S. VIII, 75, 15] 'From the far region come thou over to the near one: do thou protect that wherein I am!' as the text, so its meaning.
2. He then puts on an udumbara (ficus glomerata) one. The gods and the Asuras, both of them sprung from Pragâpati, strove together. Now all the trees sided with the Asuras, but the udumbara tree alone did not forsake the gods. The gods, having conquered the Asuras, took possession of their trees.
3. They said, 'Come, let us lay into the udumbara tree whatever pith, whatever vital sap there is in these trees : were they then to desert us, they would
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