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the Kshatra : hence it is for Indra. The sacrificial fee for this is a bull, for the bull is Indra's own (animal).
4. And on the following day, he goes to the dwelling of the Queen, and prepares a pap for Aditi; for Aditi is this Earth, and she is the wife of the gods ; and that (queen) is the wife of that (king): hence it is for Aditi. And she, the Queen, assuredly is one of his (the king's) jewels : it is for her that he is thereby consecrated, and he makes her his own faithful (wife). The sacrificial fee, on her part, is a milch cow; for this earth) is, as it were, a milch cow : she yields to men all their desires; and the milch cow is a mother, and this (earth) is, as it were, a mother: she bears (or sustains) men. Hence the fee is a milch cow.
5. And on the following day, he goes to the house of the Sata (court-minstrel and chronicler), and prepares a barley pap for Varuna; for the Sata is a spiriter (sava), and Varuna is the spiriter of the gods : therefore it is for Varuna. And he, the Sata, 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 one is a horse, for the horse is Varuna's own.
6. And on the following day, he goes to the house of the Headman (Grâmani"), and prepares a cake
1 The exact function of this officer is not clearly defined. Though the term is also used of an ordinary village headman (Patel, Adhikârin, Adigar), this could hardly apply here. Sâyana, on one passage, indeed explains the term by 'Grâmam nayati,' but elsewhere he explains it by 'Grâmânâm netâ;' and some such meaning it may perhaps have here,—the head of commu... administration, either for a district (like one of Manu's lords of a hundred, or a
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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 |