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

Page 1138

V KANDA, 5 ADHYAYA, 4 BRAHMANA, 22. 133
him therewith, and makes him whole: therefore he throws those (hairs) thereon.
19. But let him not do it so; for he who throws them on the (portions of) the victims, urges the animals on from behind with a clawed (prickly) fire-brand. Let him therefore rather throw them into the fermented liquor (parisrut 1),—thus he does not urge on the animals from behind with a clawed fire-brand; and thus alone he supplies him therewith, and makes him whole : let him therefore throw it rather into the spirituous liquor.
20. Now on the day before, he mixes the spirituous liquor (while muttering, Vâg. S. X, 31), 'Get done for the Asvins! get done for Sarasvati! get done for Indra, the good protector!' When that liquor is (done) he proceeds with that (offering).
21. They take up two fires; on the northern altar (they lay down) the northern (fire), and on a raised (mound) the southern one, thinking, 'Lest we should offer together the Soma-libations, and the Surâ (liquor) -libations:' therefore they take up two fires, and on the northern altar (they lay down) the northern (fire), and on a raised (mound) the southern And when he proceeds with the omenta, then he proceeds with that spirituous liquor.
one.
22. He purifies it with stalks of Darbha-grass, thinking, 'Let it be pure,'-with (Vâg. S. X, 31), 'The inviting Soma, purified by the purify
8
1 On the preparation of the parisrut or surâ, see XII, 7; Weber, Ind. Studien, X, p. 349.
The two new fireplaces, to the east of the Âhavanîya, are to be constructed on the model of those of the Varunapraghâsâh, see part i, p. 392.
• This doubtful interpretation of 'vâyu' is adopted from the St.
Digitized by
Google