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-BRÂHMANA.
dig out the fair-looking Agni,'—'fair-looking,' he says, for Agni is indeed fair-looking on every side ;—'ascending the heaven, unto the highest sky,'—the sky is the heavenly world : thus, 'mounting the heavenly world, unto the highest sky. He makes it come up on the right side (of the lump) to where the two other beasts are: they stand on the right side, facing the east. The significance of the right-hand (southern) position here is the same as it was on that former occasion.
15. Sitting down he now offers upon the lump of clay ;-for the gods then said, “Meditate ye (ketay),' whereby, doubtless, they meant to say, 'Seek ye a layer (kiti)! Whilst meditating they saw this libation, and offered it: after offering it, they saw the fire-pan (representing) these worlds.
16. They said, 'Meditate yel' whereby, doubtless, they meant to say, 'Seek ye a layer!' Whilst meditating they saw this second libation, and offered it: after offering it, they saw the Visvagyotis (alllight bricks), that is, those deities Agni, Våyu, and Aditya; for these deities are indeed all the light. And in like manner does the Sacrificer now, after offering those two libations, see the firepan, these worlds; and those all-light deities. He offers with two interlinked (verses) : he thereby interlinks these worlds, and those deities.
17. And, again, why he offers these two libations ; -he thereby gratifies both the clay and the water ; and having offered to, and gratified, these two, he then brings them together. With two interlinked
1 The two halves of the two verses uttered in the order i a, 2 b, 2 a, i b.
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