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 bull is sacred to Agni; and 'the forward-striving,' he says, because forward (towards the east) they hold up Agni', and towards the front? they attend upon him ;-'duly fitting thyself by limbs,' when he is built up, then he does indeed duly fit himself limb by limb ;—'harm not the inexhaustible, wideruling cow 3,' the cow is indeed wide-ruling (virag), and the wide-ruling is food, and accordingly the cow is food.
20. Then on the left side (he puts the head of) the ram, with (Våg. S. XIII, 44), 'The defender of Tvashtri, the navel of Varuna,' for the ewe is sacred both to Varuna and to Tvashtri;-'the ewe born from the highest sphere;' the highest sphere doubtless is the ear, and the ear is the regions, --(thus 4) the highest sphere is the regions ;-'the mighty, thousandfold artifice of the Asura,' that is, the great, thousandfold artifice of the Asura 5 ;'0 Agni, harm it not in the highest
. See VI, 4, 3, 10.
? Or, they attend upon him (Agni, the fire-altar) who tends towards the front (east);' inasmuch as the altar is built in the shape of a bird flying eastwards.
3 Or, harm not the cow, the wide-ruling (or wide-shining) Aditi!
• After the two premises (with 'vai ') the inference seems here to be introduced without any particle. Similarly in paragraph 24; while in paragraph 19 the particle 'u' is used to perform that office. Cf. however VII, 4, 2, 1, where a third parallel clause (which logically might have been the inference) is introduced by 'u vai.'
o Sâyana refers to the legend in Taitt. S. II, 1, 2, 2, here alluded to :-Svarbhânu, the Asura, struck the sun with darkness. The gods sought an expiation for that (darkness): the first darkness of his which they dispelled became a black ewe, the second a red one, the third a white one; and what they cut off from the surface of the bone (?) that became a barren sheep, &c.
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