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, 8 ADHYAYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 3.
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and bestow ye upon us food, milk, and seed!' it is to those (priests) who offer for him that he thus says, 'Bestow ye all this upon me!' By means of gold they cleanse themselves?; for gold is immortal life: in immortal life they thus finally establish themselves.
SECOND BRÂHMANA. 1. Pragàpati created the (Soma-)sacrifice. He took it and performed it. When he had performed it, he felt like one emptied out. He saw this sacrificial performance, the Sautrâmant, and performed it, and then he was again replenished; and, indeed, he who performs the Soma-sacrifice is, as it were, emptied out, for his wealth, his prosperity is, as it were, taken from him.
2. Having performed a Soma-sacrifice one ought to perform the Sautrâmant: as a cow that has been milked would replenish again, even so, indeed, does he replenish himself,—he replenishes himself by offspring and cattle; and, verily, he who, knowing this, performs the Sautrâmant, or he who (even) knows this, establishes himself in this world, and wins the heavenly world.
3. As to this Suplan Sârñgaya asked Pratidarsa Aibhavata?, Seeing that neither does one
Káty. Sr. XIX, 3, 27, 'Over the kâtvåla (pit) they cleanse themselves, with their wives, putting gold between ;' that is to say, whilst the water is poured on their hands a piece of gold is held between, over which the water flows.
9 Cf. II, 4, 4, 3-4, where the latter is called Pratidarsa Svaikna (king of the Svikna), whilst the former, after studying with him, is said to have been called Sahadeva Sarfigaya.
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