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XII KÂNDA, 5 ADHYAYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 7.
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living beings, him, O Agni, may thy wrath spare!' As the verse, so its explanation.
5. Now, in the first place, he cleanses him of all foul matter, and causes the foul matter to settle on this (earth); for this earth) is indeed foul matter : he thus consigns foul matter to foul matter. For, indeed, from that intestine of his, filled with foul matter, when it is burnt, a jackal is produced : (hence he removes it), ‘lest a jackal should be produced.' But let him not do this, or his family will be liable to starve. Having washed him out inside, he anoints him with ghee, and thus makes it (the body) sacrificially pure.
6. He then inserts seven chips of gold in the seven seats of his vital airs; for gold is light and immortality: he thus bestows light and immortality on him.
7. Having then built a pile for him in the midst of his fires, and spread out a black antelope skin with the hairy side upwards, and the neck-part towards the east, he lays him down thereon with the face looking upwards, and puts the guhd-spoon filled with ghee on his right, and the upabhrit on his left hand, the dhruva on the breast, the Agnihotra-ladle on the mouth, two dipping-spoons on the nostrils, two prasitra-haranas? on the ears, the cup used for carrying forward the lustral water on the head, two winnowing-baskets at the sides, on the belly the vessel used for holding the cuttings (of the idà), filled with clotted ghee, the wedge (yokepin) beside the male organ, two mallets beside the testicles, and behind them the mortar and pestle,
1 That is, two bowls used for holding the Brahman's 'foreportions'; see part i, p. 69, note 4.
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| SR No. | 007680 |
| Book Title | Satapatha Bramhana Part 05 |
| 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 |