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, 4 ADHYÂYA, I BRÂHMANA, 10.
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immortality: fire (fiery mettle), light (brilliance), and immortality he thus bestows upon him ;'protector of life, protect my life!' he thereby bestows life (vital strength) upon him. With a view to commencing the sacrifice, he then says to him, 'Restrain thy speech !' for the sacrifice is speech.
8. Four (of the king's) wives are in attendancethe consecrated queen, the favourite wife, a discarded wife, and the Pâlâgalt', all of them adorned and wearing gold ornaments (neck-plates) with the view of the completeness of conjugal union. With them he enters the hall of the sacrificial fires—the Sacrificer by the eastern, the wives by the southern, door.
9. When the evening-offering has been performed, he lies down with his favourite wife behind the Gârhapatya hearth, with his head towards the north. At the same place the other (wives) also lie down. He lies in her lap without embracing her“, thinking, May 1, by this selfrestraint, reach successfully the end of the year!'
10. When the morning offering has been performed, the Adhvaryu performs a full-offering 6 with a view to his (the Sacrificer's) gaining and securing everything, for the full means everything, and the Asvamedha is everything. At this (offering) he releases speech by (bestowing) a boon,
See p. 313, note 2. . That is the evening performance of the Agnihotra. 3 Tad eva tatraiva, comm. • Sosntarorů asamvartamânah sete.
. For particulars regarding the půrnâhuti,' or oblation of a spoonful of ghee, see part i, p. 302, note 2.
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