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.
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in the same way (on the masters of lute-players), but does not perform the Prakrama oblations.
14. And on the tenth day, after those (three) offerings have been performed in the same way, there is the same course of procedure. 'Adhvaryu! he (the Hotri) says._' Havai hotar!' replies the Adhvaryu.— King Dharma Indra!,' he says, 'his people are the Gods, and they are staying here;'learned srotriyas (theologians), accepting no gifts , have come thither : it is these he instructs; "the Saman (chant-texts) are the Veda: this it is;' thus saying, let him repeat: a decade of the Såman. The Adhvaryu calls in the same way (on the masters of lute-players), but does not perform the Prakrama oblations.
15. [In telling] this revolving (legend), he tells all royalties, all regions, all Vedas, all gods, all beings; and, verily, for whomsoever the Hotri, knowing this, tells this revolving legend, or who soever even knows this, attains to fellowship and communion with these royalties, gains the sovereign rule and lordship over all people, secures for himself all the Vedas, and, by gratifying the gods, finally establishes himself on all beings. This very same legend revolves again and again for a year; and inasmuch as it revolves again and again, therefore
1 Dharma Indra iti dasame, Dharma Indro râgety âheti Satapathe pratikadarsanat,' comm. on Sånkh. S.
• The two Satras still further qualify them as 'young stotriyas who accept no gifts,' manu(shya )deva hi ta ity abhiprâyât,' comm. on Sänkh.; cp. Sat. Br. II, 2, 2, 6, 'ye brâhmarah sustuvämso snů kánås te manushyadevah.'
: The text has brûyat,' let him say;' whilst the two Satras read sâma gåyåt,' 'let him sing a Sâman' (“yat kimkid anindyam evásvámedhikam vâ prakaranåt,' comm. on Sänkh. S.).
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