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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VII KÂNDA, 3 ADHYAYA, I BRÂHMANA, 17.
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born in this world, is really intended to be born in the heavenly world: when he strokes (the sand) even on the Ahavaniya with two (verses) containing (the verb) to grow, and not on the Gârhapatya, he causes him to be born in the heavenly world.
13. He now puts clod-bricks thereon",—that firealtar is these worlds, and the clod-bricks are the regions: he thus places the regions into these worlds; whence there are those regions in these worlds.
14. He takes them from outside the (site of the) fire-altar i for those regions which are in these worlds are already possessed by him (Agni); and he now bestows on him those regions which are beyond these worlds.
15. From outside the Vedi (he takes them);—the Vedi being this (earth), and those regions which are on this (earth) being already possessed by him, he now bestows on him those regions which are beyond this (earth).
16. And, again, why he puts clod-bricks thereon, - when Pragậpati was disjointed, his vital sap flowed over all the regions (or, in all directions); and when the gods restored him ? they, by means of these clodbricks, put into him that vital sap; and in like manner does this one now put that vital sap into him.
17. He takes them from outside the site of) the fire-altar ; for the vital sap which is in these worlds is already possessed by him (Agni), and he now puts
1 He places a clod of earth on each end of the two spines,' that is to say, in the middle of each of the four sides of the square constituting the 'body' of the altar-site.
• Or, when they put him together (by building the fire-altar).
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