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 Amsu. After that he draws those recognised Agnishtoma cups 1 up to the Agra yana.
2. He then draws the Prishthyas?: and whatever the gods (Agni, Indra, and Sarya) won by them, even that he wins by them.
3. He then draws the Shodasin: and whatever Indra won thereby, even that he (the sacrificer) wins thereby.
4. He then draws those five Vagapeya cups (for Indra; the first) with the text (V. S. IX, 2), 'Thee, the firm-seated, the man-seated, the mindseated! Thou art taken with a support 3: I take thee, agreeable to Indra! This is thy wombs (i. e. thy home) : thee, most agreeable to Indra!' therewith he deposits it; for of these
| Viz. the Upâmsu and Antaryâma; the Aindravayava, Maitrâvaruna and  svina; the Sukra and Manthin; and the Âgrayana. Part ii, pp. 256 seq.
* That is, the three Atigrâhyas (part ii, p. 402, note 2), required for the Prishtha-stotras at the midday feast, when performed in their proper 'prishtha' form, as they are at the Prishthya shadaha, and at a Visvagit-ekâha with all the Prishthas. See IV, 5, 4, 14. The authorities of the Black Yagus adopt a somewhat different arrangement. The Vâgapeya cups are likewise called by them A tigrâ hyas (Taitt. S. I, 7, 12; T. B. I, 3, 9), and these are apparently drawn by them immediately after the second of the ordinary three Atigrâhyas, the one belonging to Indra (T. S. vol. i, p. 996,-but see ib. p. 1055, where it is stated that they are drawn immediately after the Agrayana, -that is, probably, if the ordinary Atigráhyas are not required). Then follows (the third ordinary Atigrahya ?), then the Shodasin, and thereupon the seventeen cups for Pragâpati.-Sâyana remarks on our passage,-teshâm (atigråhyânâm) prakritigatâ tritvasamkhyaiva säkhântaravat samkhyântarânupadesát. MS. I. O. 657.
* For an explanation of these notions, see part ii, p. 260, notes i and 2.
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