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.
Påñkala overlord of the Krivis seized a horse, meet for sacrifice, with offering-gifts of a hundred thousand (head of cattle).'
8. And a second (Gatha),-'A thousand myriads there were, and five-and-twenty hundreds, which the Brahmanas of the Pañkalas from every quarter divided between them.'
9. The Agnishtoma in the Trivrit (stoma); the Ukthya in the Pañkadasa; and the third day, with the Uktha (stotras), in the Saptadasa; the Shodasin (stotra) in the Ekavimsa, the night (stotras) in the Pañkadasa, and the Sandhi (stotra) in the Trivrit, this is the (sacrifice) resulting in the Anushtubh?: it is therewith that sacrifice was performed by Dhvasan Dvaitavana, the king of the Matsyas, where there is the lake Dvaitavana ; and it is of this that the Gatha sings,— Fourteen steeds did king Dvaitavana, victorious in battle, bind for Indra Vritrahan, whence the lake Dvaitavana (took its name).'
10. The (three) Pavamâna (stotras) in the Katurvimsa (stoma), and (those performed) by repetitions : in the Triyrit; the Pavamânas in the Katuskatvårimsa (44-versed stoma), and (those performed) by repetitions in the Ekavimsa ; the Pavamânas in
1 Viz. inasmuch as, according to Harisvâmin, all the Stotras amount together to 798 verses, which make twenty-five anushrubh verses (of 32 syllables each) or thereabouts.
• That is to say, all the remaining nine stotras of this, the Agnishtoma, day, the so-called Dhuryas, viz. the Âgya-stotras, the Prishihastotras, and the Agnishtoma-saman, in all of which the respective Stoma is obtained by repetitions of the three stotriya-verses.
. In this, the Ukthya, day, this includes also the three Ukthastotras, as being, as it were, the Dhuryas of the Hotri's assistants
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