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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XI KÂNDA, 8 ADHYAYA, 4 BRAHMANA, 6.
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but I shall gain the (other) world; and if I do not tell him, my own race, not his, will prevail here, but he will gain the (other) world. They said, 'Do not tell him, reverend sir, for, surely, this (the earth) is the Kshatriya's world?' He replied, 'Nay, I will tell him : there are more nights ? up yonder.
6. And, accordingly, he then said to him, — Having offered the Spritis 3, he (the Adhvaryu) should say, “Drive up another (cow)!” and that one should be thy samråg-cow 4'— '[Having offered with,] "From the moon I take thy mind, hail!From the sun I take thine eye, hail!—From the wind I take thy breathings, hail!-From the regions I take thine ear, hail!-From the waters I take thy blood, hail!-From the earth
thousandfold progeny of Vâk, speech (cf. IV, 5, 8, 4; 6, 7, 3; V, 5, 5, 12)—which Khandika would thus lose, whilst, by imparting the sacred knowledge, he would gain a seat in heaven.
Sâyana's comment is not very intelligible, the MS. being more than usually corrupt on this last page :-evamvidhe virodha udbhavitê sati te âptâ ûkuh, he bhagavo vidyam mâ vokah, kshatriyasya loko na bhavishyatîti; nanu tavânusayah (appanage, domain, following) sa tasya nâsti; ayam và va ayam eva khalu kshatriyasya lokas tasmât sauspatrâter () evam ukte sati sadvekenarâpatra bhavânti (!) ato vakshyâmy evety uvâka.
* That is, days, - by giving up a brief life of earthly power and glory, he gains eternal life.
* That is, oblations performed with a view of taking hold (spri)' of something ; cf. Kâty. Srautas. XXV, 6, 11. 12.
• The particle 'iti' here causes some difficulty of construction which would be removed by the latter clause being taken as part of the Adhvaryu's speech; though Kâtyâyana, it is true, does not recognise it as such. Perhaps, however, Khandika's speech ends here, and what follows up to that one shall be thy samråg-cow' has to be taken as a ritualistic insertion, in which case the final iti' would have some such meaning as having been told thus.'
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