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cleft, is that that much of this (earth) is possessed with Nirriti.
4. They then return (to the sacrificial ground) without looking backward. He now proceeds with the cake on eight potsherds for Anumati. For Anumati is this (Earth); and whosoever knows to do that work which he intends to do, for him indeed she approves (anu-man) thereof: hence it is her he thereby pleases, thinking May I be consecrated, approved by that (genius of) approval !'
5. And as to why it is a (cake) on eight potsherds,—the Gayatri consists of eight syllables, and this earth is Gayatri. And as to why he offers of the same sacrificial food i both (oblations): thereby, indeed, both of it comes to be this latter one (viz. Anumati, or approval). A garment is the sacrificial fee for this (offering): for even as one clad in a garment does not venture into the forest, but having deposited that garment(somewhere) escapes (robbers), in like manner no assault befalls him while being consecrated.
6. And on the following day he prepares a cake on eleven potsherds for Agni and Vishnu, and offers it in the same way as the (regular) ishti: this indeed is just what that approved initiation-offering to Agni and Vishnu is there ? Now Agni is all the deities, since in Agni one offers to all deities; and Agni forsooth is the lower end, and Vishnu is the upper end : “May I be consecrated, after thus encompassing all the deities, and after encompassing
Though he has offered twice (to Nirriti and Anumati), he has only once taken out rice for oblation.
3 Viz. at the ordinary Soma-sacrifice; for the Dikshaniyeshti, see part ii, p. 12.
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| SR No. | 007679 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 03 |
| 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 |