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XI KÂNDA, 7 ADHYAYA, 4 BRAHMANA, 4.
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off: when the Hotri, on that occasion', recites, 'Endow the Rakshas with blood!' he buys him off by (assigning to him) a share of his own.
3. For on that occasion the anguish of the victim, in being slaughtered, becomes concentrated in the heart, and from the heart (it flows) into the spit. Thus, if they (were to cook the animal together with the heart, the anguish would again spread all over the animal: let him therefore cook it (the heart) after spitting it from the side on a stick.
4. He makes an underlayer of ghee (in the offering-ladle): this he makes a type of the earth; he then puts a chip of gold thereon: this he makes a type of fire; he then puts the omentum thereon: this he makes a type of the air ; he then puts a chip of gold thereon: this he makes a type of the sun; and what (ghee) he pours upon it, that he makes a type of the heavens. This, then, is that fiveportioned omentum,-fivefold is the sacrifice, fivefold the sacrificial animal, and five seasons there are in the year: this is why the omentum consists of five portions.
Viz. at the time when the victim is cut up. Cf. Ait. Br. II, 7,Endow ye the Rakshas with blood !' he says; for by (assigning to them) the husks and the sweepings of the grain the gods deprived the Rakshas of their share in the Haviryagña, and by the blood (they deprived them) of that in the great (Soma-) sacrifice : thus by saying, 'Endow ye the Rakshas with blood l'he dispossesses the Rakshas of the sacrifice by assigning to them their own share.The Adhvaryu then smears a stalk of grass with the blood with,
Thou art the Rakshas' share,' throws it on the heap of rubbish, and treads on it with, Herewith I tread down the Rakshas,' &c. Cf. III, 8, 2, 13-15.
? See III, 8, 5, 8. . Or, cuttings; see III, 8, 2, 26.
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| SR No. | 007680 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 05 |
| 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 |