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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XIII KÂNDA, I ADHYAYA, 6 BRÂHMANA, 1. 287
Brahmana sings '; for to the Brahmana belongs the fulfilment of wishes 2: it is with the fulfilment of wishes he (the Brahmana) thus endows him (the Sacrificer). Such war he waged,-such battle he won !' such are the topics about which) the Râganya sings; for the battle is the Râganya's strength : it is with strength he thus endows him. Three stanzas the one sings, and three stanzas the other, they amount to six,-six seasons make up a year: he thus establishes (the Sacrificer) in the seasons, in the year. To both of them he presents a hundred; for man has a life of a hundred (years), and a hundred energies: it is vitality and energy, vital power, he confers upon him.
Sixth BRÂHMANA. 1. (The Adhvaryu and Sacrificer whisper in the right ear of the horse, Vâg. S. XXII, 193]
Plenteous by the mother, strengthful by the father,'-its mother, doubtless, is this (earth), and its father yonder (sky): it is to these two he commits it ;-'a horse thou art, a steed thou art,'—he thereby instructs it, whence clever subjects (or children) are born to him ;-'a courser (atya) thou art, a charger thou art,'-he therewith leads it beyond (ati), whence the horse goes beyond (surpasses) other animals, and whence the horse attains to pre-eminence among animals;—'a runner thou art, a racer thou art, a prize-winner thou
1 Cf, XIII, 4, 2, 8.
• The author apparently takes ishtâparta' in the sense of either sacrifice and fulfilment,' or 'the fulfilment of (the objects of) sacrifice.' Cf. Weber, Ind. Stud. IX, p. 319; X, p. 96.
· See XIII, 4, 2, 15.
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