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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11. 31.
COMMENTARY.
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(cf. the word mahî in st. 1) uta kândram; its author is Kanva.
Stanza 1.
a. In RV. VII, 104, 22 = AV. VIII, 4, 22, Indra is called upon to crush the Rakshas as with a mill-stone: the present passage seems to realise the comparison, so that indirectly Indra's bolt (vágra) is in the mind of the poet; cf. also ásman and párvata in st. 19 of the same hymn.
d. Cf. the symbolic crushing of lentils in the practice, Kaus. 27, 14, where khalvanga takes the place of khálva; so also in Kaus. 27, 26 (cf. Kausika, Introduction, p. xlix). Kesava defines both khalvanga and khálva as krishnakanakah. Read here metri gratia kháluân. Cf. also V, 23, 8 c, d.
Stanza 2.
a. At V, 23, 6. 7 adrishta is an epithet of krimi; adrishta by itself is used substantivally in AV. VI, 52, 2 (= RV. I, 191, 4), and 3; cf. also RV. I, 191, 9 = AV. VI, 52, I and AV. V, 23, 6, where the sun is designated as the slayer, adrishtahán, of unseen (vermin); cf. Zimmer, p. 98. In AV. VIII, 8, 15 both drishtá and adrishta also occur as designations of vermin, and it seems quite likely that drishtá is an afterthought in the style of sura after asura ; diti after aditi, and the like.
b. The Paippalâda and Sâyana read kurîram for kururum; the latter defines it, kurîram gâlam tadvad antar avasthitam krimikulam.
c. The MSS., both of the hymn and the Sûtra, hesitate between the two writings algándu and alándu, and I had decided in the Additions and Corrections to the Kausika (p. 76, Sû. 14) in favour of algándu. This is the reading adopted by Sâyana and Shankar Pandit. In the Nâgarîcharacter the two forms are almost identical (lga is lâ as soon as the g-stroke is prolonged downward); hence the confusion. Sâyana, sonitamâmsadûshakân gantûn. Sâyana has salgân for salúnân. Here, as in st. 4 c, d, krímîn is obviously a gloss; the Anukramanî, uncritically, defines the metre of the stanza as uparishtâdvirâdbrihati.
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