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.
and those creatures of his are produced sound and faultless : May I be consecrated for sound and faultless creatures (or subjects)!' he thinks.
17. A bull is the fee for the Vaisvânara (oblation); for Vaisvânara is the year, and Pragâ pati is the year; and the bull is the Pragâ pati (lord of creatures or generation) among cows: therefore a bull is the fee for the Vaisvânara. A black cloth for the Varuna (oblation), for what is black belongs to Varuna. If he cannot obtain a black one, any kind of cloth will do: it is by its knots that the cloth belongs to Varuna, for the knot is sacred to Varuna.
THIRD ADHYAYA. First BRÂHMANA. 1. Having taken up both (the Gârhapatya and Åhavaniya) fires on the two kindling-sticks, he goes to the house of the Commander of the army, and prepares a cake on eight potsherds for Agni Anikavat; for Agni is the head (anika) of the gods, and the commander is the head of the army: hence for Agni Anikayat. And he, the commander, assuredly is one of his (the king's) jewels: it is for
1 Each of the two aranis' is held for a moment to one of the two fires, which are thereby supposed to become inherent in them till they are 'churned out' again for the new offering fire required. For this mounting' of the fire see part i, p. 396.
Ratna, jewel, precious thing; whence the eleven offerings described in this section are called ratna-havis, or ratninân havîmshi; the recipients of these sacrificial honours, on the part of the newly-consecrated king, being called ratninah, possessed of the Jewel (offering).'—In the ritual of the Black Yagus (Taitt. S. I, 8, 9; Taitt. Br. I, 7, 3) the order of the Ratninah, at whose houses these oblations are performed on successive days, is as follows:-1. Brahman priest (a pap to Brihaspati); 2. Råganya (a cake of eleven kapâlas to Indra); 3. Consecrated Queen (pap to
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