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.
10. These two animal victims, whilst being such, are seized (by some) in a different way. The one that is seized for Aditi, (some) seize for the Adityas,
-the Adityas being the All, he (the priest) thereby makes him the embryo of the All (universe). And the one that is seized for the Maruts, (some) seize for the All-gods,—the All-gods being the All, he thereby makes him the embryo of the All.
THE KESAVAPANİYA.
THIRD BRAHMANA. 1. When he has performed the Consecrationceremony (Abhishekaniya), he does not shave his hair. The reason why he does not shave his hair (is this) :—that collected essence of the waters wherewith he is then sprinkled (anointed) is vigour, and it is the hair (of his head) that it reaches first when he is sprinkled ; hence were he to shave his hair, he would cause that glory to fall off from him, and would sweep it away : therefore he does not shave
his hair.
2. He does not shave his hair for a year 1,religious observance is of equal measure with the year, hence he does not shave for a year : the Kesa vapaniya, namely, is a (day of) praise
He is, however, allowed to shave his beard. According to Láty. Sr. IX, 2, 20 seq., he is to pass his nights during the year in the fire-house on a tiger's skin; he is never to enter the village, and is constantly to keep up the fire. Nor is any one in his kingdom, except a Brâhman, to get his hair cut, and even the horses are to remain unclipped.
The Kesava paniya, or 'hair-cutting' (sacrifice), the fourth of the seven Soma-sacrifices enjoined for the inauguration of a king, is to be performed on the full-moon of Gyeshtha (about
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