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V KANDA, 4 ADHYAYA, 5 BRAHMANA, 15. 117
five lotus-flowers. That wreath of twelve lotusflowers he puts on himself; that is the initiation : by that initiation he initiates himself.
14. And as to why there are twelve (flowers),— there being twelve months in the year, and the year being All, it is by the All that he thus initiates him : what flowers there are of the lotus, they are a form (an image) of the sky, they are a form of the stars; and what seed-stalks there are, they are a form of the air; and what suckers there are, they are a form of this (earth): thus he initiates him (to rule) over these worlds.
15. And having bought the King (Soma)1, and
being substituted for them. There seems also some difference of opinion as to the exact time when the other preliminary ceremonies -the procession and entrance of king Soma, the guest-meal, &c.— are to take place, see paragraph 15.-According to Kâty. XV, 8, 14, these ceremonies are to take place on the seventh day (which the commentator, however, takes to mean the seventh day of the light fortnight of Kaitra; the first seven Samsrip-oblations being, according to him, performed on the day before). The Kânvas, however, perform these offerings on separate days.-The Taittirîya authorities seem also to be at variance with each other as to the exact relation of the Upasads and the last three Samsrip-oblations, the deities of the two being, according to their scheme, only partly identical. According to Âpastamba (and Taitt. Br.) the first seven Samsrips are performed on so many days and, moreover, one Dîkshâ on the seventh day. Then on the last three days the Samsrips and Upasads are combined in this way, that the eighth day's Samsrip is performed previous to, the ninth between, the tenth after the two daily Upasad-performances.-Each of the ten oblations also requires a special set of fires for its performance, the first being laid down immediately north of the one used for the Abhishekanîya ceremony, the second immediately north of the first, &c.; the last Samsripoblation being performed in the fire-shed (sâlâ) of the Dasapeya proper. Kâty. XV, 8, 2-3; cf. Taitt. S., vol. ii, p. 176.
1 Namely, at the beginning of the Abhishekanîya, or Consecration-ceremony when Soma-plants are purchased sufficient to last
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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 |