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.
SECOND BRÂHMANA. 1. He recites a gayatri invitatory formula?: the gâyatri consisting of three feet, these worlds being three in number, it is these worlds the gods thereby established.
2. He offers with a trishtubh (verse): the trishtubh consisting of four feet, and cattle being four-footed, it is cattle the gods thereby established in these established worlds.
3. The Vashat-call consists of two syllables (vaushat): man being two-footed, it is two-footed man they thereby established among the established cattle.
4. Two-footed man, then, is established here among cattle. In like manner this (Sacrificer) establishes thereby the worlds; and in the established worlds he establishes cattle, and among the established cattle he establishes himself: thus, indeed, is that man established among cattle, who, knowing this, offers sacrifice.
5. And when he offers, after the Vashat has been uttered,--that Vashat-call being yonder shining (sun), and he being the same as Death S-he thereby consecrates him (the Sacrificer) after death, and causes him to be born from out of it, and he is
* The anuvákyås recited prior to the principal oblations (pradhåna-havis) are in the gayatri metre; whilst the yagyás (referred to in the next paragraph), at the end of which the Vaushat! is uttered and the oblation poured into the fire, consist of trish/ubh verses; cf. I, 7, 2, 15.
· These inserted clauses with vai' supply the reason for what follows, not for what precedes, them.
* See X, 5, 1, 4.
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