Questions of King Milinda Part 01

SR No.: 007681
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1890
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
because Pragậpati is seventeenfold: he thus wins Pragâpati.
15. He makes the horses smell it, with Ye coursers-;' for horses are coursers (vâgin) : therefore he says, 'Ye coursers,'—'wealth-winners,'— wealth is food : 'food-winners' he thereby says ;'starting upon the course;' for they are about to run a race ;—'smell ye Brihaspati's portion!' for this indeed is Brihaspati's portion : therefore he says, 'smell ye Brihaspati's portion!' And why he makes the horses smell it: he thinks, 'may I win Him 1!' therefore he makes the horses smell it.
FIFTH BRÂHMANA. 1. Now when they run a race, he thereby wins this same (terrestrial) world. And when the Brahman sings a Sâman on the cart-wheel set up on (a post) reaching to his navel, he thereby wins the air-world. And when he erects the sacrificial post, he thereby wins the world of the gods. Hence that threefold performance.
2. The Brahman mounts a cart-wheel, set up on (a post) as high as his navel”, with (Våg. S. IX, 10),
That is, Brihaspati; unless' lokam' has to be supplied to imam' (this world'), as might appear probable from the next paragraph. See also V. I, 5, 27-28.
* According to the Taittirîya ritualists, as quoted by Sâyana (Taitt. S. I, 7, 8), the wheel after being mounted by the Brahman is to be turned round thrice in a sunwise motion ;-the (pointed) end of the post being apparently inserted in the navel of the wheel, lying horizontally upon it. The turning wheel is there compared with the Vagra, or disk-shaped thunderbolt. While the wheel is turning round its axle, the Brahman sings the Sâman. Cf. also Lâty. Sr. V, 12, 9 seq., according to which authority, however, the Brahman
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