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..
connecting link of the one-day's sacrifice! Having recited both the pankti (verses, I, 80, 1-16) Here in the Soma-draught alone (the Brahman gave thee strength); and the six-footed ones (VIII, 36, 1-7) The patron thou art of the offerer of Soma,' he inserts the Nivid in the (hymn) of the one-day's sacrifice. Thus as to the Marutvatiya (-sastra).
10. Then as to the Nishkevalya (-sastra ). The Mahânâmnt (verses) are the Prishtha (-stotra); and he recites them along with the anurapa (verses) and pragatha (-strophes), for the obtainment of all the objects of his desire, for in the Mahânâmnis, as well as in the Asvamedha, are contained all objects of desire. Having recited the pankti verses (1, 81, 1-9) Indra hath grown in ebriety and strength,' and the six-footed ones (VIII, 37, 1-7) *This sacred work didst thou protect in
See part ii, p. 337, where the same triplet forms the anukara of this Sastra at the Agnishtoma. It is followed there by the Pragathas VIII, 53, 5-6; I, 40, 5-6 (read thus ! each two counting as one triplet); three Dhâyyå verses, and the Marutvatîya Pragathas VIII, 89, 3-4 (!). These are to be followed up, on the present occasion, by the two hymns I, 80, and VIII, 36, after which the Indra hymn X, 73, the chief part of the normal Marutvatîya Sastra, is to be recited, with the Nivid formula inserted after the sixth verse.
* That is, the Sastra succeeding the chanting of the first, or Hotri's, Prishtha-stotra (see part ii, p. 339). Whilst, however, in the one-day's sacrifice, the Rathantara (or the Brihat) saman is used for that stotra, the Mahânâmni verses (see part iii, introd. p. xx, note 2), with the Såkvara tune, are to be used as the Stotriyâs on this occasion, and are therefore likewise to be recited by the Hotri as Stotriya-pragathas (cf. Asv. VII, 12, 10 seqq.), to be followed up by the antistrophe (anurûpa)—here consisting of the triplets 1, 84, 10-12; VIII, 93, 31-3; I, 11, 1-3-and the Såma-pragatha, VIII, 3, 1-2.
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