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, 5 ADHYÂYA, 1 BRÂHMANA, 22.
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to go out of him. He kept them back by means of strength : hence those two are kept back by strength; for he to whom one gives strength, breathes and eats food.
20. Those (energies) thus were kept back by one another. Having kept them back by one another, he (Pragâpati) caused them to enter his own self; and that food having entered, all the gods entered along with it; for everything here lives on food.
21. It is thereto that this verse applies,— Then, indeed, he became that breath,'—for that breath he then indeed became ;-' having become the great Pragâ pati,'--for great he indeed then became, when those gods entered him ;—'having obtained the benefits, the beneficial,'—the benefits doubtless are the vital airs (breaths), and the beneficial are the food : thus, having obtained all that;
-'when he breathed the breaths in the stronghold;'-the stronghold doubtless is the self (body), and inasmuch as he breathed the breaths, the gods are the breaths; and inasmuch as Pragapati breathed, the breath also is Pragåpati; and verily he who is that breath, he is that Gayatri ;-and as to that food, that is Vishnu, the deity; and as to that strength, that is the Udumbara (tree).
22. He said, 'Verily this one has lifted me from out of all evil ;' and because he said he has lifted me out (udabhârshit),' hence (the name) udumbhara ; '-'udumbhara' doubtless being what is mystically called Udumbara, for the gods love the mystic. • Wide space (uru) shall it make (karat) for me!' he said, hence 'urukara ;' 'urukara' doubtless being what is mystically called 'ulûkhala' (the mortar); for the gods love the mystic. Now that mortar is
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