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, 3 BRÂHMANA, 11. 395
9. But concerning this, Satyayag ñi said, “They may indeed do it in either way, only one must not depart from the (right) path. But the former, indeed, is the established practice. The sacrifice (of the second day) is an Ukthya : thereby he causes the air-world to prosper. The last day is an Atirâtra with all the Stomas, for him to obtain and secure everything, for the Atirätra with all the Stomas is everything, and the Asvamedha is everything.
10. Its Bahishpavamâna (stotra) is in the Trivrit (9-versed Stoma), the Agya (stotras) in the Pañkadasa (15-versed), the Madhyandina-pavamana in the Saptadasa (17), the Prishthas in the Ekavimsa (21), the Tritiya Pavamâna in the Trinava (27), the Agnishtoma-saman in the Trayastrimsa (33), the Ukthas in the Ekavimsa (21), the Shodasin in the Ekavimsa, the night (chants) in the Pañkadasa, the Sandhi (twilight chant) in the Trivrit (9). Whatever Sastra is (recited) for the second day of the Prishthya Shadaha that is (used at) the Atirâtra sacrifice ; thereby he causes yonder (heavenly) world to prosper.
11. 'There are twenty-one Savanlya victims, all of them consecrated to Agni, and there is one and the same performance for them,' so say some; but let him rather immolate those twenty-four bovine (victims ?) for twelve deities, -twelve months are a year, and the year is everything, and the Asya
* In the same way Âsv. S. X, 4, 8 lays down the rule that the Sastras of the second day are those of the fifth day of the Vyddha Prishthya-shadaha; cf. above, XIII, 5, 1, 7 seqq.
· See XIII, 3, 2, 3.
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