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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
B. THE RÅGASÛYA, OR INAUGURATION OF A KING.
SECOND ADHYAYA. THIRD BRAHMANA.
1. He offers a full-offering1; for the full means the All: 'May I be consecrated after encompassing the All!' thus he thinks. At this (offering) he bestows a boon; for a boon means all: 'Having encompassed the All (the universe), may I be consecrated!' thus he thinks. He may perform this offering, if he chooses; or, if he chooses, he may disregard it.
2. And on the following day he prepares a cake on eight potsherds, as sacrificial food for Anumati2. And whatever portion of (the grains) being ground, -either flour or rice-grains,-falls down behind the pin, that he throws together into the dipping-spoon
1 On the pûrnâhuti, or libation of a spoonful of ghee, see part i, p. 302 note. According to Kâty. Sr. XV, 1, 4 seq., Âsv. Sr. IX, 3, 2, and other authorities, this full-offering is preceded by the Pavitra (purificatory ceremony), a Soma-sacrifice with four dikshâs or initiation days (? commencing on the first day of the bright fortnight of Phâlguna), serving as the ordinary opening offering (anvârambhanîyesh). That it formed part of the ceremonial at the time of the composition of the Brahmana there can be little doubt (cf. Pankav. Br. 18, 8, 1), but as it is an ordinary Agnish/oma, the author had no reason to refer to it.
I. e. the approval or favour of the deities, personified.-According to Yagnika Deva (to Kâty. Sr. XV, 1, 8), the ceremonies now beginning would commence on the 10th day of the bright half of Phalgunî; the fifth day's ceremony from this day, viz. the first of the four seasonal offerings, having to be performed on the Fullmoon of that month; see p. 47, note I.
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| SR No. | 007681 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 01 |
| 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 |