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it is with cattle he thereby consecrates him. This is one kind of water: it is that he now brings.
20. He then takes clarified butter with, 'Allsupporting ye are, bestowers of kingship: bestow ye kingship on me, hail!-All-supporting ye are, bestowers of kingship: bestow ye kingship on N. N.!' With that (water) he sprinkles : it is with the essence of cattle he thereby consecrates him. This is one kind of water : it is that he now brings.
21. Having then caught up (moist) sun-motes with the hollow of his hands, he mixes them (with the other kinds of water), with, 'Self-ruling waters ye are, bestowers of kingship: bestow ye kingship on N. N.!' For those sun-motes are indeed self-ruling waters, since they are flowing, as it were, and, not yielding to one another's superiority, keep being now higher now lower : he thus thereby bestows self-ruling power upon him. This is one kind of water : it is that he now brings.
22. These then are seventeen (kinds of) water he brings together, for Pragâpati is seventeenfold, and Pragâpati is the sacrifice: that is why he brings together seventeen kinds of water.
23. Now sixteen kinds of water are those he offers upon; and he offers sixteen oblations : that makes thirty-two. On two of them he does not offer, viz. on the water from the Sarasvati and on the sunmotes : that makes thirty-four. For three and thirty are the gods, and Pragâpati is the thirtyfourth : he thus makes him to be Pragâpati (the lord of creatures).
24. And as to why he takes (water) each time after offering, -the ghee, to be sure, is a thunder
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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 |