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.
fashions that infused seed, whence the seed infused into the womb is fashioned.
6. [Vâg. S. XII, 4] A well-winged bird thou art!'—the well-winged bird means vigour: he thus forms him so as to be (endowed with) vigour ;'the Trivrit is thy head,'—he thus makes the
Trivrit stoma (nine-versed hymn) his head ;-'the Gayatra thine eye,'—he thus makes the Gayatri metre his eye ;-'the Brihat and Rathantara thy wings,'—he thus makes the Brihat and Rathantara (hymn-tunes) his wings ;-'the hymn is the self,'--the Pañkavimsa stoma (twenty-fiveversed hymn) he makes the self (soul, or body);'the metres the limbs,'—for the metres are indeed his (Agni's) limbs ;-'the prayers his name,'— the prayers (yagus) are his name 'Agni' by which they call him, —'the Vâmadevya sâman is thy body,'—the body, doubtless, is the self: thus the Vamadevya (hymn-tune) is thy body, thy self;'— 'the Yagñayagñiya thy tail,'—he thus makes the Yagñâyagñiya 1 his tail ;—'the hearths thy hoofs,'—by means of the hearths he (Agni) is indeed established in this world ;-'thou art a wellwinged bird: go to the heaven! fly to the light!'—thus having made him a well-winged bird”, he says, 'Go to the gods ! fly to the heavenly world !!
7. He fashions him here in the pan or womb) into (a bird) with wings and tail ; for whatlike the seed is fashioned in the womb, suchlike it is born; and because he here fashions him as a bird) with
" The ordinary hymn-tune of the Agnishtoma-sâman, the last and characteristic stotra of the simplest, or Agnishtoma Soma-sacrifice.
? Or, the bird (or eagle, suparna) Garutmat.
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