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 ADHYAYA, 3 BRAHMANA, 6. 189
your minds, together your rites, together your thoughts: O Agni Purishya, be thou the overlord, and bestow thou food and drink upon our Sacrificer!' He thereby bespeaks peace on the part of those two for the safety of the Sacrificer's family and cattle.
5. But if his heart should at all misgive him, let him prepare a cake on eight potsherds to Agni Agnimat (the fire possessed of a fire). The course of procedure thereof (is as follows):-he should recite seventeen kindling-verses; the two butterportions relate to the slaying of Vritra'; the samyâgyâs 2 are two Virag verses; and the invitatory and offering formulas (of the chief oblation) are as follows:-(the anuvâkyâ, Rig-veda S. I, 12, 6), 'Agni is kindled by Agni, he, the sage, the youthful house-lord, the tongue-mouthed bearer of oblations;' and the yâgyâ, 'For thou, O Agni, art kindled by Agni, priest, as thou art, by a priest, friend by friend.' He thereby bespeaks peace on the part of those two, for the safety of the Sacrificer's family and cattle. This, then, is the rite performed in that case.
6. They also say, 'If any one's Gârhapatya were to go out when the Ahavaniya has not gone out, what rite and what expiation would there be in that case?' Now, some take (a new fire) out from that same (Âhavantya hearth, and carry it) forwards 3,
'That is, their Anuvâkyâs refer to Vritrahan.
That is, the anuvâkyâ (invitatory formula) and yâgyâ (offeringformula) recited for the oblation to Agni Svish/akrit. Cf. XIII, 4, I, 13 note.
That is to say, they make the still burning Âhavanîya their Gârhapatya and take out a new offering-fire which they lay down on a place to the eastward of the former Âhavanîya (the former
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