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, 9.
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7. There are two Vedis' (altar-grounds),—Two worlds in truth there are, they say, 'the world of the gods, and the world of the Fathers. One (of the Vedis) is in the north, and the other in the south, for the world of the gods is in the north, and the world of the Fathers in the south: by the northern one he secures the world of the gods, by the southern one the world of the Fathers.
8. There are both milk and Surâ-liquor; for milk is Soma, and the Sura-liquor food : through the milk he secures the Soma-drink, and through the Sura-liquor food. And milk is the nobility (chieftaincy), and Surá-liquor the peasantry (clan); the milk he purifies after purifying the Sura-liquor : he thus produces the nobility from out of the peasantry, . for the nobility is produced from out of the peasantry.
9. With (Våg. S. XIX, 3), Purified by Vậyu's · The two Vedis are prepared, in front of the Âhavanîya, by the Adhvaryu and Pratiprasthâtri respectively in a way similar to those required for the Varunapraghâsâh, see part i, p. 392, note. There is some space between them, but not more than will allow a seat to stand on both Vedis (XII, 8, 3, 6). The dimensions of the northern altar-ground) are in accordance with those of the mahavedi (measuring thirty-six prakramas or steps long, twenty-four on the hind (west) side, and thirty-six (or thirty) on the front (east) side), except that the unit of measure, in this case, is one-third prakrama,- the area being thus equal to one-ninth of the maha vedi (some authorities, however, making it one-third). Behind the two Vedis two mounds (khara) are thrown up for the three cups of milk, or three cups of Surâ-liquor respectively, to be deposited thereon. On the northern Vedi an uttara-vedi (high-altar), occupying about one-third of its area, is prepared, on which a sacrificial fire (taken from the Āhavaniya) is afterwards laid down for the use of the Adhvaryu in making libations from the cups of milk; another fire being laid down on the southern mound for the use of the Pratiprasthầtri in making libations from the cups or Surâ-liquor.
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