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 two-footed, and the Sacrificer is Agni : as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, by so much he thus pours him forth as seed;—with two (verses) relating to Agni: it is Agni he thereby pours forth as seed. Inasmuch as they relate to Agni, they are Agni; and inasmuch as they are Trishtubhs, they are Indra; and Agni (the fire) belongs to Indra and Agni: as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, by so much he thus pours him forth as seed. Moreover, Indra and Agni are all the gods, and Agni (thus) contains all deities : as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, by so much he thus pours him forth as seed.
22. He offers on the horse's footprint ; the horse is the same as that Agni, and so, indeed, these two libations come to be offered over Agni.
23. He draws lines around it (the lump, with the spade): he thereby puts a measure to it (or, to him, Agni), as if saying, 'So great thou art!'
24. And, again, why he draws a line around it; the gods now were afraid, thinking, We hope the Rakshas, the fiends, will not smite here this (Agni) of ours!' They drew that rampart round it; and in like manner does this one now draw that rampart round it, with the spade, for the spade is the thunderbolt, and he thus makes the thunderbolt its (or his, Agni's) protector. He draws it all round: on every side he thus makes that thunderbolt to be its (or his) protector. Three times he draws a line : that threefold thunderbolt. he thus makes to be a protector for him.
25. [Vág. S. XI, 25-27] 'Around the wise lord
Or, he makes that protecting thunderbolt for it (or him).
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