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SATAPATHA-BRẤHMANA.
SEVENTH KÅNDA.
THE GÂRHAPATYA HEARTH. First ADHYÂYA. First BRÂHMANA. 1. Being about to build the Gârhapatya (fire-place), he sweeps its site) with a Palasa (butea frondosa) branch. For when he builds the Gârbapatya? he settles on that place; and whatsoever builders of fire-altars (there have been), they are indeed settled on this earth ; and when he sweeps (that place) he thereby sweeps away those settled (there before him), thinking, 'Lest I should settle on those already settled (here).
2. (He sweeps, with Vâg. S. XII, 451 'Off with you! away with you! crawl away from here?!'that is, 'Go off, go away, and crawl away from here!' he says this to those that crawl on their belly;~'Ye that are here of old and of latel' that is, 'both ye who were here of yore, and ye of the present day.'
3. "Yama hath given the settlement on earth (to this Sacrificer); '--for Yama indeed rules over the settling on this earth, and it is he who grants to this (Sacrificer) a settlement on this earth.
That is, the householder's fire,' which represents the Sacrificer's domestic hearth,
*This first pâda is taken from Rik S. X, 14, 9. The four pâdas of the verse are muttered by the Adhvaryu while sweeping the four sides of the site respectively, beginning in the east and ending in the north. On this place when swept the circular site of the Garhapatya is then marked off by saline soil being scattered over it (cf. Taitt, S. V, 2, 3, 2–3).
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| SR No. | 007679 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 03 |
| 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 |