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.
This, then, is that Viråg, and from out of that Virág he (the Sacrificer) generates the Purusha, the Sacrifice.
3. Now these (forty days) are four decades; and as to there being these four decades, it is for the obtainment of these worlds, as well as of the regions : by the first decade they' obtained even this (terrestrial) world, by the second the air, by the third the sky, and by the fourth the regions (quarters); and in like manner does the Sacrificer, by the first decade, obtain even this (terrestrial) world, by the second the air, by the third the sky, and by the fourth the regions—and, indeed, as much as these worlds and the regions are, so much is all this (universe); and the Purushamedha is everything :
thus it is for the sake of his obtaining and securing • everything.
4. On the Upavasatha: (day) there are eleven victims sacred to Agni and Soma : the performance for these is one and the same. There are eleven stakes,-the Trishtubh (verse) consists of eleven syllables, and the Trishtubh is a thunderbolt, and the Trishtubh is vigour: with the thunderbolt, with vigour, the Sacrificer thus from the first repels evil.
5. On the Sutyà (days) there are the (Savantya) victims of the set of eleven : (stakes),--the Trishtubh consists of eleven syllables, and the Trishtubh is a thunderbolt, and the Trishtubh is vigour: with the thunderbolt, with vigour, the Sacrificer thus from the first repels evil.
Harisvåmin supplies 'pârve purushah' (? former men, or the first seven purushåh, the seven Rishis).
. That is, the day before the Soma-sacrifice. • See III, 7, 2, I seqq.
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