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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VEDIC HYMNS.
nowned worshipper that property which is desirable and excellent. Thou art called the guardian and father even of the weak? ; thou instructest the simple, thou, the greatest sage, the quarters of the worlds.
15. Thou, O Agni, protectest on every side like well-stitched armour the man who gives sacrificial fees. He who puts sweet food (before the priests), who makes them comfortable in his dwelling, who kills living (victims), he (will reside) high in heaven".
16. Forgive, O Agni, this our fault (?)', (look graciously at this way which we have wandered from afar. Thou art the companion, the guardian, the father of those who offer Soma ; thou art the quick one who makes the mortals Rishis s.
17. As thou didst for Manus, O Agni, for Angiras, O Angiras, for Yayâti on thy (priestly) seat, as for the ancients, O brilliant one, come hither, conduct hither the host of the gods, seat them on the sacrificial grass, and sacrifice to the beloved (host).
18. Be magnified, O Agni, through this spell which we have made for thee with our skill or with our knowledge. And lead us forward to better things. Let us be united with thy favour, which bestows strength.
NOTES. The Rishi of the hymn is Hiranyastupa Ångirasa. To him tradition ascribes the authorship of the collection 1, 3135, probably because in X, 149, 5 the poet invokes Savitri, 'as Hiranyastupa the Angirasa has called thee, O Savitri.' Vedic theologians of course tried to find out where this invocation of Hiranyastūpa to Savitri was preserved, and the hymn, I, 35, seemed to agree best with the conditions
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