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.
prepared this sacrifice (the Sautrâmani): with the help of these deities he thus prepares it; and, besides, he also provides these deities with a share.
18. The invitatory and offering formulas are made continuous !, and relate to the same deities, for the sake of continuity and uninterruptedness of the race (offspring). All of them relate to the Asvins, all of them to Sarasvati, and all of them to Indra : the significance of this is the same as before.
19. The Åprf-formulas” are anushtubh verses ; for the Anushtubh is speech, and with speech Soma is pressed: he thus presses it with speech, for the sake of (conformity with) the Soma-sacrifice. All of them relate to the Asvins, all of them to Sarasvati, and all of them to Indra: the significance of this is the same as before.
20. The anupraishas 3 (after-directions) are in the
1 This refers to the puro snuvákyâs and yagyâs of the oblations of omentum (vapa) of the three victims. For these formulas the three verses, Vâg. S. XX, 67-69, are used in such a way that verse i forms the anuvâkyâ, and verse 2 the yagyå, of the Asvins' oblation; verse 2 the anuvâkyâ, and verse 3 the yâgyâ, of Sarasvati's oblation; and verse 3 the anuvâkyâ, and verse i the yâgya, of Indra's oblation. In each of the three verses all the three deities are mentioned.--In exactly the same way the three verses, XX, 70-72, are used as the anuvâkyâs and yâgyas of the three pasupurodâsas; and 73-75 as those of the chief oblations (havis) of meat-portions.
* The Âprîs (propitiatory verses, cf. part ii, p. 185) are the offering-formulas (vagyâ) of the eleven (or twelve) fore-offerings (prayâga) of the animal sacrifice. Those used on the present occasion are the twelve verses given, Vâg. S. XX, 55-66; there being on this occasion in the second and third places) foreofferings both to Tanûnapât and Narâsamsa. In each of these verses, again, all three deities are referred to.
. I do not exactly know what formulas are thereby referred to.
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