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.
17. [Våg. S. XI, 65] ‘May the Vasus fill thee with the Gayatri metre, Angiras-like !-May the Rudras fill thee with the Irishtubh metre, Angiras-like !—May the Adityas fill thee with the Gagati metre, Angiras-like!—May the Allgods, dear to all men, fill thee with the Anushtubh metre, Angiras-like!'—by these deities he thus moistens it: by whatever deities he fashions it, by them he fumigates it, and by them he moistens it. For he who performs a work, knows the practice of it: hence by whatever deities he fashions it, by them he fumigates and moistens it.
THE DIKSHÂ, OR INITIATION. Sixth ADHYÂYA. First BRÂHMANA. 1. Many are the oblations, in the building of the fire-altar, as well as at any other (special ceremony) than the building of the fire-altar. For there are supernumerary rites, — supernumerary are those which are (performed) over and above another rite: of these ? are the building of the altar (Agnikitya), the Râgasûya, the Vâgapeya, and the Asvamedha ; and because they are over and above the other (normal) rites, therefore they are supernumerary.
1 Or rather, too many, more than are required at one of the normal Soma-sacrifices),-adhvarikebhyo bahutarâni, Sây.
* That is, as would seem from Sâyana, of such ceremonies as have supernumerary, or additional, oblations to the normal ones connected with them. This discussion seems to be introduced here on account of the additional oblation (that to Vaisvânara) offered at the initiation ceremony. As an additional' or special, oblation at the Vågapeya, Sâyana refers to the pap of wild rice (V, 1, 4, 12); whilst at the Râgasůya the one to Anumati (V, 2, 3, 4) is said to belong to the same category.
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