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.
the birth-place of all breaths; and the birth-place of the breaths being the head
23. It (the mortar) is of the measure of a span, for the head is, as it were, of the measure of a span ;four-cornered, for the head is, as it were, fourcornered ;-contracted in the middle, for the head is, as it were, contracted in the middle.
24. Now when the gods restored him (Pragâ patiAgni), they put all that inside him—breath, food, strength; and in like manner this (Sacrificer) now puts that into him. At the distance of the two retahsik (he places it),—the retahsik being the ribs, and the ribs the middle, it is thus in the middle of (or, inside) him that he puts all that.
25. (He sets them down !, with Vâg. S. XIII, 33 ; Rik S. I, 22, 19] 'See ye the deeds of Vishnu'deed doubtless means power : thus, see ye the powers of Vishnu ;—'whereby he beheld the sacred ordinances,'-ordinance means food : thus, whereby he did behold the food ;-'Indra's allied friend,' for he is indeed Indra's allied friend. With a (verse) relating to two deities he sets them down, for the mortar and pestle are two. Once he 'settles' them : he thereby makes them one and the same ; for one and the same is that food. Having settled' it, he pronounces the Sudadohas on it: the significance of this has been explained.
26. He then places the fire-pan thereon,—the firepan is a womb: a womb (birth-place) he thus gives to him (Agni). He places it on the mortar,-the mortar is the air, and everything that is above this
· The mortar, according to the commentaries to Kâty., is partly dug into the ground, with the open part upwards; the pestle being then placed to the right (south) of it.
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