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, 3 ADHYÂYA, 3 BRÂHMANA, 10. 335
twenty-one-versed, run counter to one another : were he to bring them together, the Sacrificer would suffer harm, and his sacrifice would be destroyed.
8. There may, indeed, be a twelvefold altar, and eleven stakes. When the altar is a twelvefold one-twelve months being a year-it is the year, the sacrifice, he obtains. When there are eleven stakes, then that Virág (metre), the Ekadasint', is contrived; and that which is its eleventh (stake) is its teat: thereby he milks it.
9. As to this they say, 'If there were a twelvefold altar, and eleven stakes, it would be as if one were to drive on a cart drawn by one beast.' There are the twenty-one-fold altar, the twenty-one-fold Stoma, and twenty-one stakes : that is as when one drives with side-horses.
10. That twenty-one-fold one, indeed, is the head of the sacrifice; and, verily, he who knows three heads on the Asvamedha, becomes the head of kings. There are the twenty-one-fold altar, the twenty-one-fold Stoma, and twenty-one stakes: these are the three heads on the Asvamedha; and, verily, he who thus knows them becomes the head of kings. And, indeed, he who knows the three tops on the Asvamedha, becomes the top of kings ;there are the twenty-one-fold altar, the twenty-onefold Stoma, and twenty-one stakes: these, indeed, are the three tops on the Asvamedha; and, verily, he who thus knows them becomes the top of kings.
· Viz. the set of eleven (stakes), here represented as a cow; but in order to assimilate it to the Virág, or metre consisting of ten syllables, the eleventh stake is made the teat or udder of the cow,
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