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.
42. And the last five are the Khandasyah (the metres' bricks) ;—the metres are cattle, and cattle is food; or rather the flesh of cattle is food, and the flesh has departed from these victims: he therefore puts flesh on those cattle when he lays down the Khandasyah. He places them close to the victims : he thereby puts the flesh close to the bones of the) cattle. The Apasyâh are inside, the Khandasyâh outside ; for the water is inside, and the flesh outside.
43. As to this they say, 'If there are that water and that flesh, where then is the skin, and where the hair ?' Well, the skin of cattle is food, and the hair of cattle is food; and when he lays down the Khandasyâh, that is the skin of the victims, that is their hair. Or, again, those goats' hair which are in the fire-pan", they are hair. The fire-pan is outside, and the victims' heads are inside, for outside is the hair, and inside is the body. Whether in the one way, or whether in the other,' so Så ndilya was wont to say, 'in any case we make up the victims wholly and completely.'
44. And, again, why he lays down the Apasyah. When Pragâ pati was disjointed the water went from him; that being gone, he sank down; and because he sank down (vis), therefore there are twenty (vimsati, viz. such bricks). It flowed from his fingers, the fingers being the end, it (the water) went from him in the end.
45. Now the Pragapati who became disjointed is this very Agni who is now being built up; and the water (@pah) which went from him is these very
See VI, 4, 4, 32 ; 5, 1, 4.
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