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, 4 ADHYÂYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 2.
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what expiation would there be in that case?' Let him pluck a bunch of grass and make her eat thereof. This is the rite performed in that case.
SECOND BRAHMANA. 1. They also say,ʻIf any one's Agnihotra-cow were to milk blood, what rite and what expiation would there be in that case ?' Let him say · Disperse!' and having made a stirring-spoon, let him order the Anvähårya-pakana fire to be enclosed; and having boiled that (blood) thereon, let him silently offer it in an undefined indistinct) way !, for Pragåpati is undefined, and the Agnihotra is sacred to Pragâpati; and the undefined also means everything: he thus makes atonement with everything. At this offering he should give that (cow) to a Brahmana whom he does not intend to visit ; for, indeed, she who milks blood milks it after perceiving the Sacrificer's suffering and evil: he thus fastens that suffering and evil upon this (Brahmana). Let him then make offering with what other milk he can procure: by that which is not unsound he thus throws out what is unsound in the sacrifice. This, then, is the rite performed in that case.
2. They also say, 'If any one's Agnihotra-milk were to become impure a whilst being milked, what rite and what expiation would there be in that case?' Now some think that it should be offered
According to Kâty. XXV, 2, 2, it is to be offered on hot cinders of the Dakshinågni with the formula, To Rudra, hail!'
• Or rather, perhaps,-if anything impure were to get (to fall) into any one's Agnihotra-milk; cf. XII, 4, 2, 9.
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