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.
Pashan is (the lord of) cattle: he thus announces him to the cattle, and they approve of his consecration; and approved by them he is consecrated.
36. 'Present are Heaven and Earth, the allpropitious;'-he thus announces him to those two, the heaven and the earth, and they approve of his consecration; and approved by them he is consecrated.
37. 'Present is Aditi, of wide shelter ;'-Aditi is this earth: he thus announces him to this earth, and she approves of his consecration, and approved by her he is consecrated. Thus to whatever deities he announces him, they approve of his consecration, and approved by them he is consecrated.
FOURTH ADHYAYA. First BRÂHMANA. 1. He puts a piece of copper into the mouth of a long-haired man, with (Våg. S. X, 10), ‘Removed by sacrifice are the mordacious.' For verily he who performs the Râgastya escapes all kinds of death, all murderous blows, and old age alone is his death: hence whatever kind of death, whatever murderous blow there is, past that he now guides him, as past the mordacious ones.
2. And as to why it is of a long-haired man,- such a long-haired man is neither woman nor man; for being a male, he is not a woman, and being longhaired (a eunuch), he is not a man. And copper (or bronze) is neither iron nor gold; and those mordacious ones (snakes) are neither worms nor non-worms. And as to its being copper,—reddish
· Lohầyasa, literally, red metal,' apparently either copper, or an alloy of copper and some other metal.--The eunuch is sitting in the Sadas.
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