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-BRÂHMANA.
earth-mounds ?, the one in front of the axle, and the other behind the axle : 'Lest we should deposit together the cups of Soma, and the cups of Surâ, — this is why, on the preceding day, they prepare two mounds, one in front, and the other behind the axle.
16. Now, when they take the Vasativarf water? (into the havirdhâna shed) by the front door, the Neshtri takes in the Parisrut-liquor by the back door. From the south they bring in the drinking vessels. The Adhvaryu, seated in front of the axle, with his face towards the west, draws the cups of Soma ; and the Neshtri, seated behind the axle, with his face towards the east, draws the cups of Surâ. The Adhvaryu draws a cup of Soma, the Neshtri a cup of Surâ; the Adhvaryu draws a cup of Soma, the Neshtri a cup of Surâ : in this way they draw them alternately.
17. Neither does the Adhvaryu hold the Somacup beyond the axle towards the back, nor the Neshtri the Sura-cup beyond the axle towards the front, thinking, 'Lest we should confound light and darkness !'
18. The Adhvaryu holds the Soma-cup just over the axle, and the Neshtri the Sura-cup just below
1 The mounds (khara) thrown up in the havirdhâna cart-shed, are used for placing the cups of Soma (and Surâ) after they are drawn, until they are used for the libations. See the plan of the sacrificial ground at the end of part ii; only that on the present occasion there is to be a second mound, for the placing of the Surâcups, under or just behind the axle of the southern Soma-cart (in the place where the Nârâsamsa cups to the Fathers were temporarily deposited at the Agnishtoma; see III, 6, 2, 25 with note). On this occasion a small door is also made in the southern wall of the cart-shed, by breaking through the hurdle.
? Part ii, p. 222 seq.
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