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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
part. He offers with, 'O Rudra, whatever potent", highest name is thine, therein thou art an offering, thou art a home-offering, hail!
Third BRÂHMANA. 1. North of the Ahavaniya he places a hundred, or more than a hundred, cows of that relative of his. The reason why he does so is this :
2. When Varuna was consecrated, his energy, his vigour departed from him. Probably that collected essence (life-sap) of the waters wherewith they were sprinkling him, drove out his energy, his vigour. He found it in the cattle, and because he found it in them, therefore cattle are an object of respect. And having found it in the cattle, he again took to himself his energy, his vigour. And in like manner this one ;-that energy does not indeed depart from him, but he does it (thinking), 'This Râgasuya is Varuna's consecration, and Varuna did so.'
3. He takes down the chariot (from the stand 3); for whatever turns away from the warrior (râganya) that he overtakes with his chariot : for this reason he takes down the chariot.
4. He takes it down with (Vâg. S. X, 21), Thou art Indra's thunderbolt!' The chariot is indeed a thunderbolt; and the Sacrificer is Indra ;-he is Indra for a twofold reason, namely because he is a
1 The meaning of krivi (krayi, Taitt. S.) is doubtful. Mahîdhara derives it from 'kar' (to make or injure), in the sense of either efficacious,' or 'destructive.'-A Grantha MS. of the Kanva text reads kavi, 'wise.'
• I am now inclined to think that some such meaning as 'probably, perhaps' (more nearly, German 'wohl'), fits all the passages (in the Brahmanas at all events) where sasvat occurs.
3 See above, V, 1, 4, 3 seq.
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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 |