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.
Anuvākas (Våg. S. XXII, 23–34), “To the inbreathing hail! To the off-breathing hail!' ... (he offers)—twelve months are a year, and the year is everything, and the Asvamedha is everything: thus it is for his obtaining and securing everything.
5. The central day is an ekavimsa day'; for the twenty-one-fold is yonder sun, and he is the Asvamedha : by means of his own Stoma he thus establishes him in his own deity,—therefore it is an ekavimsa day.
6. And, again, as to why it is an ekavimsa day;man is twenty-one-fold-ten fingers, ten toes, and the body (self) as the twenty-first: by means of that twenty-one-fold self he thus establishes him in the twenty-one-fold (day) as on a firm foundation, -therefore it is an ekavimsa day.
7. And, again, as to why it is an ekavimsa day ;the ekavimsa, assuredly, is the foundation of Stomas, and manifold is that ever-varying performance which takes place on this day,—and it is because he thinks that that manifold and ever-varying performance which takes place on this day, shall take place so as to be established on the ekavimsa as a firm foundation, that this is an ekavimsa day.
8. Now, as to the morning-service of this day. The Hotri, having recited as the Agya (hymna) in the Pankti (metre) 'Agni I think on, who is good ..., recites thereto the one of a one-day's
That is one on which all Stotras are chanted in the 'ekavimsa' Stoma, or twenty-one-versed hymn-form.
· Viz. Rig-veda V, 6, forming the special feature of the Âgyasastra at the Asvamedha.
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