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, 4 BRÂHMANA, 1.
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say of him'), 'He has caused to be extinguished even what was left him : no heir will remain to him,' then that would indeed be likely to come to pass.
10. Let him rather proceed thus :-having lifted the two fires on the two churning-sticks?, let him betake himself northwards, and, having churned out (the fire), let him remain there offering; for in this way he passes no censure on any one, and towards night offering is made by him at his new restingplace.
FOURTH BRÂHMANA. 1. And, in the morning, having taken out the ashes, and smeared (the fire-places) with cow-dung, he lifts the two fires on the churning-sticks, and returns (to the offering-ground). Having then churned out the Garhapatya, taken out the Åhavaniya, and brought the Anvâhârya-pakana (to the southern hearth), he should prepare a cake on eight potsherds to Agni Pathikrit (the path-maker). The course of procedure thereof (is as follows) :he should recite those same seventeen kindling-verses; the two butter-portions relate to the slaying of Vritra s; the samyâgyâs are two Virag verses 8; and the invitatory and offering formulas are as follows: -(the anuvákyà, Rig-veda VI, 16, 3), 'For thou, most wise Agni, divine disposer, readily knowest the ways and paths at sacrifices; and the yâgyâ (Rig-veda X, 2, 3), We have entered upon the path of the gods to carry on what we can do: the wise Agni shall sacri
1 There seems here to be an omission in the printed text, though MS. Ind. Off. 311, it is true, has the same reading.
• That is, by holding the sticks a moment near the fires. 3 See notes on XIII, 4, 1, 13.
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