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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XII KANDA, 2 ADHYAYA, 2 BRAHMANA, 4. 149
and the Prishthya of light on one side only?' Well, the Abhiplavas are these worlds, and these worlds are indeed possessed of light on both sides— through the fire on this side, and through the sun on yonder side; and the Prishthya is the seasons, and the seasons are indeed possessed of light on one side only: he who burns yonder (the sun) is their light.
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2. Verily, those two wheels of the gods, established on the Prishthya', revolve crushing the Sacrificer's evil; and, indeed, if during a sacrificial session any one speaks evil of such initiates as know this, those two wheels of the gods cut off his head: the (chariot-) seat is the Dasarâtra, and the two wheels are the Prishthya and Abhiplava.
3. Concerning this they say, 'Seeing that the two wheels (of a cart) are alike, and those stomas unlike, how are those stomas one after another performed alike for him?' Let him reply, 'Thereby, that there are six of the one, and six of the other.'
'Let him make the Prishthya and Abhiplava two warps,' said Paingya; 'let him make their
stotra on each of the six days. Here only the first day has the same Stoma at the beginning, as the Gyotish/oma,-whence it has 'gyotis' on one side only.
This 'prish/hyapratishthite' looks rather strange, perhaps the correct reading is 'prishthapratishthite,' 'established on the prishtha-sâmans'; unless, indeed, 'pratishthita' has to be understood here to refer to the Abhiplava, as the established, or ordinary, Shadaha, which doubtless would make the best sense,-'those two wheels of the gods, the Prishthya and the established (Abhiplava-) shadaha.'
* Or, as we would rather say, whilst revolving, crush the Sacrificer's evil.
? Or, possibly, two kinds of threads, those of the warp and the woof (or weft), which are combined into one web. The St. Petersh.
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