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.
fore the fee is gold. He gives it to the Agnidh ; for he, the Agnidhra, is really the same as Agni : therefore he gives it to the Agnidh.
9. And what cake on eleven potsherds there is for Indra, the fee for that is a bull, for the bull is Indra. And if there be a pap for Soma, then the fee for that is a brown ox, for the brown one is sacred to Soma. He gives it to the Brahman, for the Brahman guards the sacrifice from the south : . therefore he gives it to the Brahman.
10. And what pap there is for the All-gods, the fee for that is a piebald bullock; for abundance of forms (marks) there is in such a piebald bullock, and the Visve Devâh are the clans, and the clans mean abundance: therefore a piebald bullock is the fee. He gives it to the Hotri, for the Hotri means abundance: therefore he gives it to the Hotri.
11. And what dish of curds there is for MitraVaruna, the fee for that is a sterile cow, for that one is sacred to Mitra-Varuna. If he cannot procure a sterile cow, any unimpregnated one will do; for every sterile cow is indeed unimpregnated. He gives it to the two Adhvaryus; for the Adhvaryus are the out-breathing and the in-breathing, and the out-breathing and in-breathing are Mitra-Varuna : therefore he gives it to the two Adhvaryus.
12. And what pap there is for Brihaspati, the fee for that is a white-backed bullock; for to Brihaspati belongs that upper region, and above that there is that path of Aryaman2: therefore a whitebacked (bullock) is the fee for the Brihaspati (pap). He gives it to the Brahman, for Brihaspati is the
i Or rather, that upward direction. ? That is, the region of light, of the sun. See V, 3, 1, 2 with note.
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