Satapatha Bramhana Part 05

SR No.: 007680
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1900
Total Pages: 2017
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 44 MB

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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
a theological disputation !' Yagñavalkya said, “We are Brâhmanas, and he is a Råganya : if we were to vanquish him, whom should we say we had vanquished? But if he were to vanquish us, people would say of us that a Râganya had vanquished Brâhmanas : do not think of this!' They approved of his words. But Yâgñavalkya, mounting his car, drove after the king). He overtook him, and he (the king) said, Is it to know the Agnihotra, Yagñavalkya ? 'The Agnihotra, O king !' he replied.
6. Well, those two libations, when offered, rise upwards: they enter the air, and make the air their offering-fire, the wind their fuel, the sun-motes their pure libation : they satiate the air, and rise upwards therefrom.
7. "They enter the sky, and make the sky their offering-fire, the sun their fuel, and the moon their pure libation : they satiate the sky, and return from there.
8. 'They enter this (earth), and make this (earth) their offering-fire, the fire their fuel, and the herbs their pure libation: they satiate this (earth), and rise upwards therefrom.
9. 'They enter man, and make his mouth their offering-fire, his tongue their fuel, and food their pure libation : they satiate man; and, verily, for him who, knowing this, eats food the Agnihotra comes to be offered. They rise upwards from there.
10. “They enter woman, and make her lap their offering-fire, her womb the fuel,- for that (womb) is called the bearer, because by it Pragàpati bore creatures, and the seed their pure libation : they satiate woman; and, verily, for him who, knowing this, approaches his mate, the Agnihotra comes to
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