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, 3 ADHYAYA, I BRÂHMANA, 3.
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him that he is thereby consecrated (or quickened), and him he makes his own faithful (follower). The sacrificial fee for this (jewel-offering) consists in gold; for Agni's is that sacrifice, and gold is Agni's seed: therefore the sacrificial fee consists in gold.
2. And on the following day, he goes to the house of the Purohita (the king's court chaplain), and prepares a pap for Brihaspati; for Brihaspati is the Purohita of the gods, and that (court chaplain) is the Purohita (praepositus ') of that (king) : hence it is for Brihaspati. And he, the Purohita, assuredly is one of his (the king's) jewels : it is for him that he is thereby consecrated, and him he makes his own faithful follower. The sacrificial fee for this is a whitebacked bullock; for to Brihaspati belongs that upper region, and there above lies that path of Aryaman (the sun)': therefore the fee for the Bârhaspatya (oblation) is a white-backed (bullock).
3. And on the following day he prepares a cake on eleven potsherds for Indra at the dwelling of him who is being consecrated (the king); for Indra is the Kshatra (ruling power), and he who is consecrated is
Aditi); 4. The king's favourite wife (pap to Bhaga); 5. A discarded wife (pap to Nirriti); 6. Commander of the army (cake of eight kap. to Agni); 7. Sata (charioteer, Sây.—cake of ten kap. to Varuna); 8. Grâmani (cake of seven kap. to Maruts); 9. Kshattri (chamberlain, or superintendent of seraglio, Sây.—cake of twelve kap. to Savitri); 10. Samgrahîtri (treasurer, Sây.- cake of two kap. to Asvins); 11. Bhagadugha (collector of taxes, Sây.-pap to PQshan); 12. Akshâvâpa (dylltakara, superintendent of gambling, Såy.-gavîdhuka pap to Rudra). Finally the king offers in his own house two cake-oblations (of eleven kapálas) to Indra Sutrâman (the good protector) and Indra Amhomut (the deliverer from trouble).
* Whence the back of that upper region is white, or bright.
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