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 KÂNDA, 3 ADHYAYA, I BRAHMANA, I. 165
form) is the spine; for there are thirty-two 'karůkara' of that (spine), and the spine itself is the thirty-third therefore the Trayastrimsa (stoma) is the spine.
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15. The Abhigit is the same as this right ear; the first Svarasâman is this white part of the eye, the second the black part, and the third the pupil; the Vishuvat is the nose, the first backward Svarasâman is this pupil of the eye, the second the black, and the third the white part thereof.
16. The Visvagit is the same as this left ear; the Prishthya and Abhiplava have been told; the Go and Åyus are the two downward breathings which there are (in the body); the Dasarâtra the limbs, the Mahâvrata is the mouth; and the Udayaniya Atirâtra the up-breathing, for by means of the upbreathing men go upwards (ud-yanti): such is that year as established in the body; and, verily, whosoever thus knows that year as established in the body, establishes himself by offspring and cattle in this, and by immortality in the other, world.
THIRD ADHYAYA. FIRST BRAHMANA.
1. 'Seeing that all this threefold universe keeps passing into one another, O Bâlâki, how is it that
This is another term, the exact meaning of which is somewhat doubtful. The St. Petersb. Dict. takes 'karûkara' to refer to the vertebrae of the spinal column; and if that be correct, the term would seem to include not only the twenty-four joints of the backbone down to the last lumbar vertebrae, but also the appendages of the spine, viz. the sacrum with its five, and the coccyx with its four pieces: this, it is true, yields thirty-three, instead of thirty-two, parts, but it seems scarcely possible in any other way-as, for instance, by taking into account the epiphysial plates between the vertebrae, along with the latter-to arrive at a total approximating that mentioned in the above passage.
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