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-BRÂHMANA.
the west); for he who offers the Vâgapeya wins Pragâpati; but Pragâ pati is speech, and that doubtless is the supreme speech which is (the outcome) of seventeen drums: he thus wins the supreme speech, the supreme Pragâpati. Seventeen there are, because Pragâpati is seventeenfold: he thus wins Pragâpati.
7. One of these drums he (the Brahman) beats (while praying) with a sacrificial formula: thereby all of them become beaten with a sacrificial formula.
8. He beats it with (Våg. S. IX, 11), “O Brihaspati, win the race! lift ye up your voice unto Brihaspati: make ye Brihaspati win the race!'thus, if a Brâhmana sacrifices; for Brihaspati is the Brahman, and the Brâhmana is the Brahman.
9. And if a Râganya sacrifices, (he does so) with, O Indra, win the racel lift ye up your voice unto Indra: make ye Indra win the race!' for Indra is the Kshatra, and the Râganya is the Kshatra.
10. And when those race-running chariots' have come up again, he takes down one of those drums with a sacrificial formula ; whereby they all become taken down with a formula.
11. He takes it down, with (Vâg. S. IX, 12), 'This hath been your true concord whereby ye (drums) have caused Brihaspati to win the race ;-Brihaspati ye have caused to win the race: be released, ye wood-lords!' thus, if a Brahmana
Besides the Sacrificer's chariot inside the vedi, sixteen others, each drawn by four horses, have been got ready, outside the vedi, for the race to the udumbara branch, as its goal and turning-point. In paragraphs 10-12 the author again anticipates what is to be done with the drums after the race has taken place, just in order to deal with that item of the ceremonial as a whole.
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