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.
tree-worship, comp. also H. O., Religion des Veda, 90 seq., 256.–Verses 1-5=TB. III, 6, 1, 1. 3; MS. IV, 13, 1. Verse 3=MS. I, 2, 11. Verse 4=TÅ. I, 27, 2. Verse 10 =TB. II, 4, 7, 11. Verse 11=TS. I, 3, 5, 1 ; VI, 3, 3, 3.
Verse 1. Note 1. The tree of which the sacrificial post is made.
Note 2. The post is anointed with butter, see Schwab, 1. c., 69. This butter is spoken of as honey also in the Yagus, which refers to this rite, 'May the god Savitri anoint thee with honey,' Taittiriya Samhità I, 3, 6, 1.
Note 3. In the lap of the mother Earth.
Verse 2. Note 1. Amati has nothing to do with the verb am; it is the contrary of matí. See Rig-veda IV, 11, 6. ámatim ... ámhah ... duhmatím; X, 33, 2, and such passages of the younger Vedic Samhitâs as Våg. Samh. XVII, 54 (ápa ámatim duhmatím bảdhamânâh). The same is the opinion of Geldner (Ved. Studien, II, 184, note 4).
Note 2. The sacrificial post is addressed.
Verse 3. Note 1. Comp. below, III, 24, 1.
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Verse 4. Note 1 The sacrificial post, round which a rope of grass (Schwab, Thieropfer, p. 49) is tied, is compared here with a well-dressed youth. This seems to contain an allusion to the Upanayana ceremony, at which the youth was invested with the sacred girdle, and which was considered as a second birth (comp. Pâda B: He becomes more excellent when born'). There is no doubt that this rite is as old and older than the Rig-veda ; see H. O., Religion des Veda, 466 seq. It may be noted that several Grihya-sútras prescribe the use of our verse at the Upanayana (Asvaidyana I, 20, 9, &c.).
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