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, 6 ADHYAYA, 4 BRÂHMANA, 10.
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Lord of food, give us of thy food!'-that is, 'O Lord of viands, give us of thy viands!'—'of the painallaying, strengthening'--that is, of the hungerallaying, strengthening (food),'—'Onward, onward lead thou the giver!'-the giver, doubtless, is the Sacrificer : thus, 'Onward lead thou the Sacrificer!' -'Give us sustenance for the two-footed and the four-footed!'-he thereby asks a blessing. Now as to the expiation in case of (the fire-pan being) broken which, he said, would be explained 'in a subsequent chapter?'
8. If the fire-pan were to break, let him pour that (fire in the pan) into any such unbroken, new pot with a wide mouth as there may be; for the pan which is broken indeed suffers injury, but uninjured is this deity (Agni): ‘Uninjured I will bear him in the uninjured !' so he thinks. Into that (pot) he first throws a potsherd of the (broken) pan, and thus he (Agni) is not deprived of that womb of his.
9. He then takes the (remaining®) clay, and having pounded both the (broken) pan and that remainder, and mixed it, he makes a (new) pan in the very same way, without using any formula, quite silently. Having baked it, he pours (the fire) over. The expiation in this case is one of performance only. Having again thrown that potsherd into the (new) pan, and pounded both the (temporary) pan and the remaining clay, and mixed it, he lays it aside for expiation.
10. And if the fire in the pan (Ukhya Agni) were to go out, it is doubtless to the Gârhapatya that it goes, for from the Gârhapatya it has been taken. Having then taken it out of the Gârhapatya eastwards (to the place of the Åhavaniya), and put fuel on it, let him
* See VI, 5, 2, 22. See VI, 5, 3, 7.
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