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.
night, and the milk of three the third night: he thus provides him with the pressings, in accordance with their forms, and in accordance with their deities.
12. With (Vág. S. XIX, 2). 'Hereof pour ye to the juice,' he pours in (the milk) for the sake of (conformity with) the Soma-pressing ;-'(to) the Soma who is the supreme offering,'--for this, to wit, Soma, is indeed the supreme offering (-material): he thus makes it to be the supreme offering ;-'the manly one who hath rushed into the waters,' for both with water and between it is he (Soma) indeed pressed out;-'I have pressed out Soma by stones,' for by means of stones Soma is indeed pressed out: it is thus by means of stones he presses it out for the sake of (conformity with) the Soma-pressing.
13. As to this they say, 'That Sautrâmant, surely, is of the form of both effused (extracted) and infused ? (Soma);—to wit, that essence of both water and plants, the milk, is of the form of the effused (Soma); and that essence of food, the liquor, is of the form of infused (Soma): by both (kinds of) pressings he thus expresses it, by both pressings he secures it.
14. As to this they say, 'Seeing that the Somajuice is pressed out by stones, how as to the Sautramani ?' Let him reply, 'By the directions 3 and the
1 The 'enam'must refer to the Sura-liquor, treated as identical with Soma.
* I do not quite understand the distinction between suta' and "asuta'; cf. XII, 8, 1, 5; unless the former be the pure Somajuice, and the latter that mixed with other ingredients.
• The 'praisha' are the directions by which the Maitrâvaruna calls on the Hotri to recite the offering-formulas (cf. part ii, p. 183, note 2). For the fore-offerings of the three victims, these directions are given, Våg. S. XXI, 29-40. They all commence with Hota
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