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, 5 ADHYAYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 23. 391
steed; this Brahman (priest) is the highest seat of speech]'
22. Verily, this is the complete attainment of speech, to wit the Brahmodya, and in the Asvamedha all desires are contained : 'By means of all speech may we obtain all our desires! so (they think).
23. When the colloquy has been held, the Adhvaryu enters the (Havirdhana), and draws Pragapati's (first) Mahiman cup (of Soma) in a gold vessel. The Puroruk formulathereof is (Våg. S. XXIII, 1; Rig-v. X, 121, 1), 'The golden germ was first produced ... And its Puros nuvâkyà is (Våg. S. XXIII, 63), 'Of good nature, self-existent at first (within the great ocean: I verily place the right germ whence is bor'n Pragâ pati).'May the Hotri offer to Pragàpati : (of the Mahiman Soma (cup); may he relish, may he drink the Soma! Hotri, utter the offeringformula !]' is the Praisha (ib. 64). The Hotri utters the offering-formula (ib. 65), 'O Pragâ pati, none other than thee hath encompassed all these forms...;' and as the Vashat is pronounced, he (the Adhvaryu) offers with (Våg. S. XXIII, 2), 'What greatness of thine there hath been in the day, and the year, (what greatness of thine there hath been in the wind and the air; what greatness of thine there hath been in the heavens and the sun, to that greatness of thine, to Pragâ pati, hail, to the gods 8!]' He does not repeat the Vashat, for he offers the cup of Soma all at once.
"That is, the preliminary formula, or formulas, preceding the upayâma' (Thou art taken with a support...'). • See V, 4, 2, 9.
* See XIII, 2, II, 2 with note.
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