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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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
on the churning-sticks, lay them down, and churn it (the new fire) out on his being brought (home); but let him not do so, for that (fire) does not submit thereto that they should churn it out as for the burning of a dead body: it is rather to sacrifice and oblations that it submits, and, unable to endure it, it stays by him with impatience.
4. Let him rather proceed thus :-let him bid them seek for a cow suckling an adopted calf, and let him make offering with milk from her; for tainted is that milk which comes from a cow suckling an adopted calf, and tainted is the Agnihotra of one who is dead: by thus removing the tainted by the tainted, he becomes more glorious.
5. Concerning this there also is a simile :—if two smashed cars were to (be made to) unite there would be at least one (fit) for driving.
6. The procedure of this same Agnihotra (is as follows) :—He causes her to be milked whilst eastward invested 1; for, sacrificially invested, one gets (the Agnihotra-cow) milked for the gods, but in the case of the Fathers it is done thus.
7. He does not put (the milk) on the (burning) coals 2; for were he to put it on coals he would be doing (what is done) for the gods: having shifted some hot cinders from the Gårhapatya towards the right (south) side, he puts it thereon, and thus makes it to be sacred to the Fathers.
1 That is, wearing the Brahmanical cord over the right shoulder, and under the left arm; instead of over the left shoulder, and under the right arm as is done at the sacrifice.
* For boiling the milk for the Agnihotra burning coals are shifted northwards from the Gårhapatya, and the pot placed thereon; see part i, p. 330, note.
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