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.
is above the air on this side of the sky, therewith the Rishis stepped nigh, that is this fourth layer.
9. Now when they said, “Meditate ye (ketayadhvam)!' they doubtless meant to say, 'Seek ye a layer (kitim ikkhata) l' and inasmuch as meditating (ketay) they saw them, therefore they are ‘layers' (kitayah).
10. Pragâpati saw the first layer: Pragâ pati assuredly is its (spiritual) ancestry. The gods saw the second layer: the gods assuredly are its ancestry. Indra and Agni, and Visvakarman saw the third layer : they assuredly are its ancestry. The Rishis saw the fourth layer : the Rishis assuredly are its ancestry. Parameshthin saw the fifth layer: Parameshthin assuredly is its ancestry. And, verily, whosoever so knows that (spiritual) ancestry of the structures (layers of the fire-altar), his structures are indeed possessed of an ancestry, possessed of relations (or, of mystic significance, bandhu).
THE SAVITRA LIBATIONS. THIRD ADHYAYA. First BRÂHMANA. 1. The gods then said, “Meditate ye!' whereby doubtless they meant to say, 'Seek ye a layer!' Whilst they were meditating, Savitri saw those Sâvitra (formulas); and inasmuch as Savitri saw them, they are called Såvitra. He offered that eightfold-taken libation; and when he had offered it, he saw this eightfold-appointed Ashâdha, which had been created aforetime.
1 That is, the 'invincible' brick, being the first brick which is made, and that by the Sacrificer's chief wife (mahishî) herself. See VI, 5, 3, I seq.-Sayana remarks,—tâm Âhutim hutva imâm prithivîm âdhiyagħtikîm ashtadhâvihitâm mritsikatâbhih prithivyavairiyam (prithivyangair imâm) ashtavihitâtmikám ashâdham ishta
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