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.
looking back thither he offers ; for the A pâmârga is of a backward effect : whosoever does anything to him there, him indeed he thereby pitches backward. Let him indicate the name of that one, saying, 'We have slain so and so! So and so is slain !' thus he slays the fiends, the Rakshas.
FIFTH BRAHMANA. 1. He prepares a cake on eleven potsherds for Agni and Vishnu, a pap for Indra and Vishnu, and either a cake on three potsherds, or a pap, for Vishnu. He performs that Trishamyukta 1 offering. Therewith the gods came by men, and in like manner does this (king) now thereby come by men.
2. Now as to why there is that cake on eleven potsherds for Agni and Vishnu ;-Agni is the giver, and men are Vishnu's: thus Agni, the giver, gives him (the king) men.
3. And as to why there is a pap for Indra and Vishnu ;—Indra is the Sacrificer, and men are Vishnu's: thus Agni, the giver, gives him (the
That is, the triply connected,' the ceremony being made up of three rounds, each of which consists of three separate oblations, viz. :
1. Âgnâvaishnava cake, Aindråvaishnava pap, Vaishnava pap; 2. Âgnâpaushna cake, Aindrâpaushna pap, Paushna pap;
3. Agnishomîya cake, Aindrâsaumya pap, Saumya pap. In this way one of the three divinities for whom the offering is intended,—viz. Vishnu, Pashan, and Soma,-is each time connected with the two head-gods, Agni and Indra.-In the Black Yagurveda, this set of offerings (not, however, called there by this name), is preceded by another ceremony consisting of five oblations to Dhâtri, Anumati, Râkâ, Sinivali, and Kuhů. Taitt. S. I, 8, 8. Cf. Sat. Br. IX, 5, 1, 38.
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