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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V KÂNDA, 2 ADHYAYA, 5 BRÂHMANA, 16.
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the fee for this offering); for such a brown one is of Soma's nature.
13. And on the following day he prepares a cake on twelve potsherds for (Agni) Vaisvânara, and a barley pap for Varuna. These two offerings he performs either on days following one another, or so as to use the same barhis ?.
14. And as to why there is that (cake) for Vaisvanara ;—Vaisvânara ('belonging to all men') truly is the year, and Praga pati is the year; and Pragapati indeed thereby created abundance and creatures, thinking, “May I be consecrated, having created abundance and creatures !' And in like manner does that (king) thereby create abundance and creatures, thinking, “May I be consecrated, having created abundance and creatures !'
15. And why it is one on twelve potsherds ;twelve months there are in the year, and Vaisvânara is the year : this is why it is one on twelve potsherds.
16. And as to why there is a barley pap for Varuna; he thereby frees the creatures from every snare of Varuna, from all that comes from Varuna ?;
1 That is to say, he is either to perform the Vaisvânara on one, and the Våruna one on the next-in which case a different barhis, or altar-covering of sacrificial grass, would be needed-or he may perform them both on one and the same day, with the same barhis serving for both.
* See III, 8, 5, 10 where I translated, 'from all (guilt) against Varuna;' varunya, doubtless, implies both the guilt incurred by the infringement of Varuna's sacred laws, and the punishment inAlicted by him. As regards the swearing by Varuna (?)' there referred to see Rik S. X, 97, 16 where the conjurer mutters : · May they (the plants) free me from the (evil) resulting from the curse and from Varuna ;'--muñkantu mâ sapathyâd atho varunyâd
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