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.
born, cow-born, law-born, rock-born (is) the great truth. For that atikhandas (or excessive metre) comprises all the metres: thus evil does not descend along with him.
23. Let not the charioteer get down along with (or, after) him, lest he should descend on the same world on which the anointed (king) has just descended. They put him up, along with the chariot, on the carstand. Thence he leaps down : thus he does not descend on the same world on which the anointed has just descended?
24. North of the Åhavanfya is the original fire, taken up (from the hearth 2). Behind the right hind-wheel of the cart-stand he fastens two round satamânas 3.
25. He then hides an udumbara (ficus glomerata) branch in the wheel-track). He touches one of those two (plates), with (Vág. S. X, 25), 'So great thou art, life thou art: bestow life upon me! A yoke-mate thou art, lustre thou art: bestow lustre upon me!' He thereby takes life and lustre to himself.
26. He then touches the udumbara branch, with, 'Sustenance thou art: bestow sustenance upon me!' He thereby takes sustenance (strength) to himself. Those same two round satamânas are the fee for this ceremony. He gives them to the
According to Taitt. Br. I, 7, 9, 6, the king, on returning to the Vedi, is supposed to have ascended to the heavenly world (suvargaloka), from which the charioteer is to be excluded by this expedient.
: The Ahavaniya of the hall (the so-called “hall-door fire') has been lifted and placed on a cart.
o Or, two round (gold) plates, weighing a hundred mâna (or berries of Guñga, or Abrus Precatorius, the average weight of which is stated to be it'grains Troy).
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