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 ADHYÂYA, 3 BRÂHMANA, 3. 69 and Soma. Having performed the offering of the omentum thereof, he prepares a cake on eleven potsherds for Agni and Soma?. Thereupon the offerings of the Divine Quickeners (Devasa) are prepared.
2. For Savitri Satyaprasava (of true impulse) he prepares a cake from fast-grown (plâsuka) rice?, on either twelve, or eight, potsherds ; for Savitri is the impeller (prasavitri) of the gods: “May I be quickened, impelled by Savitri!' thus (he thinks). And as to its being) of fast-grown rice : ‘May they quickly impel me l'he thinks.
3. For Agni Grihapati (the house-lord) he then prepares a cake on eight potsherds from quick-grown (asu) rice*; for the house-lord's position means prosperity : as much as he (the king) rules over, over
the chants (stotra) of the Consecration ceremony, the Pavamânastotras are chanted in the thirty-twofold, the Agya-stotras in the fifteenfold, the Prishtha-stotras in the seventeenfold, and the Agnishtoma-saman and Uktha-stotras in the twenty-onefold mode of chanting (stoma). Pañk. Br. 18, 10, 9. The Bahishpavamâna is specially constructed so as to consist of the following parts, Sâma-veda II, 978-80; further six so-called sambhâryâ verses; further II, 125-27; II, 4-6; II, 431–3; II, 128–30; II, 555-59; II, 7-9; II, 981-83; see Park. Br. 18, 8, 7 seq.—The Taittirîya ritual (Taitt. Br. I, 8, 7 seq.), on the other hand, prescribes for the Pavamâna-stotras, the thirty-four-versed stoma, commencing the Bahishpavamâna by II, 920; II, 431, &c.
? This is the ordinary Pasu-purodása, or cake of animal (offering). See part ii, p. 199, note 2 (where read Agni and Soma, instead of Indra and Agni).
? That is, according to Sâyana, rice which has sprung up again and ripens very rapidly. Taitt. S. I, 8, 10 has 'âsu' instead, for which see next paragraph.
8 Or, consecrated (sa).
• That is, according to Sâyana, rice ripening in sixty days. The Taitt. S. prescribes a cake of black rice for Agni.
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