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SATAPATHA-BRÂHMANA.
antelope skin?; but he makes this the first brick ? : let him therefore, if he like, sleep upon (a couch); and whatever food animals here eat, all that is here obtained and taken possession of by him ; and whatever kinds of food there are other than honey, of all those he may eat at pleasure, if he can get them. Carnal intercourse, however, he may not hold prior to the offering of) clotted curds to Mitra and Varuna 3: the purport of this (will be explained) hereafter.
40. Here now they say, 'At this sacrifice he should give a Dakshina (sacrificial gift); thinking, “Lest my sacrifice should be without a dakshina!” let him give to the Brahman the prescribed dakshinâ, for the Brahman is the entire sacrifice : thus the entire sacrifice of his becomes healed. Let him not do so; for he makes this a brick, and it would be just as if he were to give a present with each brick: only at that (proper) time 4 let him therefore give what it befits him (to give).
THIRD BRAHMANA. 1. Now, the gods said, 'Meditate ye !'-whereby, no doubt, they meant to say, 'Seek ye a layers (for the fire-altar)!' Whilst they were meditating,
1 For the antelope skin used at the initiation-ceremony, see III, 2, 1, 1; for the girdle, ib. 10.
See above, VI, 2, 1, 20.
This is the concluding oblation of the Soma-sacrifice, performed at the close of the Agnikayana ; see IX, 5, 1, 54.
• Viz. at the proper time when the priests receive their fees, after the mid-day Soma-service, see part ii, p. 340.
• The author here connects the causal verb ketay' (to reflect) with 'ki,' to pile, to build; or rather with 'kitim ish,' to desire building (an altar).
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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 |