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, 7 ADHYAYA, 3 BRÂHMANA, 5.
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(shall be) in common to us,' he said, 'bring them back, then!'
3. The Asvins and Sarasvatt then poured out foam of water (to serve) as a thunderbolt, saying, 'It is neither dry nor moist;' and, when the night was clearing up, and the sun had not yet risen, Indra, thinking, 'It is neither by day nor by night, therewith struck off the head of Namuki, the Asura.
4. Wherefore it has been said by the Rishi (Rig-veda S. VIII, 14, 13), With foam of water, Indra, didst thou sever the head of Namuki, when thou wert subduing all thine enemies.' Now, Namuki is evil : having thus, indeed, slain that evil, his hateful enemy, Indra wrested from him his energy, or vital power. Let him who has an enemy perform the Sautrâmani: he thereby slays that evil, his hateful enemy, and wrests from him his energy, or vital power. In his (Namuki's) severed head there was the Soma-juice mixed with blood. They loathed it. They perceived that (means of) drinking separately (one of) the two liquids,— King Soma, the drink of immortality, is pressed?; '- and having thereby made that (Soma) palatable, they took it in (as food).
5. With (Våg. S. XIX, 1), 'Thee, the sweet (liquor I mix) with the sweet (Soma),' he compounds (the ingredients for the preparation of) the Surâ-liquor ?, and makes it palatable ;—'the strong
Vâg. S. XIX, 72 seq. On the myth cp. Muir, O.S.T., vol. v, p. 94. . The preparation of the Sura is described in Kâty. XIX, I, 20–21 and comms., and by Mahîdhara on Våg. S. XIX, 1, in the following way. Having purchased (a) malted rice (sashpa), malted barley (lokma), and fried rice (lågåh), and (b) various vegetable substances (called with the generic name of nagnahu) serving as spices and ferments, such as the bark of Vatica robusta, three
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