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.
7. And, again, why he slaughters that white, hornless (he-goat);-when the gods restored the relaxed Pragâpati, they, by means of this victim, put into him that out-breathing which had gone out of him ; and in like manner this one now puts it into him. It belongs to Vâyu, because Våyu is the out-breathing; and to Niyutvat, because the teams are the in-breathing: he thus puts the outbreathing and in-breathing into him. It is white, because Vayu (the wind) is white; and it is hornless, because Vâyu is hornless.
8. For this (animal sacrifice) there are seventeen kindling-verses ; for the year is seventeenfold there are twelve months and five seasons-Pragàpati is the year, and Pragâ pati is Agni: as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, by so much he thus kindles him.
9. And, again, why there are seventeen,-man is seventeenfold, there are ten vital airs, four limbs, the body the fifteenth, the neck-joints the sixteenth, and the head the seventeenth, — Pragàpati is the Person (or man, purusha), and Prągàpati is Agni : as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, by so much he thus kindles him.
10. He recites both gâyatri and trishtubh verses : their significance has been told; and (what applies to) the order of the verses has been told. There are twelve Apri-verses : their significance has been told; and (what applies to) the order of the verses has been told. The animal cake belongs to Pragapati: 'Therein then that wish was obtained,'
That is, only two additional trishtubh verses are to be inserted between the 11 (or 15) gâyatri ones.
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