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.
chaplain; for those twelve are a complete whole (or everything), and he who is either a noble or a domestic chaplain is everything.
14. In the case of a Purohita, he puts it on, with (Vág. S. XI, 81), 'Perfected is my sanctity (brahman), perfected the vigour, the strength, perfected the victorious power (kshatra) whose Purohita I am!'—he thus perfects both his sanctity and power
15. And in the case of a nobleman, with (Våg. S. XI, 82), 'I have raised their arms, their lustre and strength: by the spiritual power I destroy the enemies, and elevate mine own (relatives)!' this he says with the view that he may destroy his enemies, and elevate his own relatives. Let him put on both these (kindling-sticks); for both the Brahman and the Kshatra are this Agni; and it is this Agni he thus kindles by those two, by the Brahman and the Kshatra.
16. These (kindling-sticks) amount to thirteen ;thirteen months are a year, and Agni is the year : as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, by so much food he thus gratifies him.
17. They are a span long, for Vishnu, as an embryo, was a span long; and this is (Agni's or Vishnu's) food : he thus gratifies him with food proportionate to his own body. But the food which is proportionate to one's body satisfies, and does no injury; but what is too much that does injury, and what is too little that does not satisfy. Standing he puts them on-the significance of this (will be ex
* Or, his spiritual and political power, his priesthood and nobility.
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