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.
knowing this, once said, 'I am now going to get myself initiated for one year.' His father, looking at him, said, 'Knowest thou, long-lived one, the fordingfootholds of the year?'-'I know them,' he replied, for, indeed, he said this as one knowing it.
SECOND BRAHMANA.
1. Here, now, they say, 'Whereby are the Abhiplavas possessed of light (gyotis) on both sides',
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The difference between the Abhiplava-shadaha and the Prishthya-shadaha was thus explained in part iii, introd., p. rxi, note 2-In both kinds of shadaha, the Prishtha-stotras (at the Madhyandina-savana) are performed in the ordinary way—viz. either in the Agnish/oma or the Ukthya way (see ib., p. xvi, note 2, as the correct reference is);-but whilst, in the Abhiplavashadaha, the Rathantara and Brihat-sâmans are used for the Hori's Prishtha-stotra on alternate days, the Prishthya-shadaha requires a different Prishtha-sâman on each of the six days. The two kinds of shadahas also differ entirely in regard to the sequence of Stomas prescribed for the performance of the Stotras.' It is this difference in the sequence of Stomas' which is referred to in our passage. On the six days of the Abhiplava-shadaha, the sequence of Stomas (the first four of which, viz. Trivrit, Pažkadasa, Saptadasa, and Ekavimsa, are only used) varies from day to day in this way: 1. Gyotishfoma; 2. Goshtoma; 3. Âyush/oma; 4. Gosh/oma; 5. Âyush/oma; 6. Gyotish/oma (for the difference between these, see part iv, p. 287, note 2). It will thus be seen that the Abhiplava has the 'gyotih (stoma)' on both sides, on the first and the last days. For the Hotri's Prishtha-stotra on these successive days the Rathantara-sâman and Brihat-sâman are used; and, as the Goshtoma and Âyushtoma are Ukthya-days, the usual practice which requires the Brihat-sâman for such days, is not followed; just as the final Gyotish/oma in this case requires the Brzhat-sâman. -As regards the Prishthya-shadaha, each successive day requires for its stotras a single Stoma, in the ascending order: Trivrit, Pažkadasa, Saptadasa, Ekavimsa, Trinava, Trayastrimsa; --a different Prishtha-sâman being used for the Hotri's Prishtha
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