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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VII KÂNDA, 3 ADHYÂYA, 2 BRÂHMANA, 1.
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in the heavens doubtless is the moon, for that one causes him to be celebrated in yonder world 1. With two (verses) he makes him grow, a gâyatri and a trishtubh one,—the significance of this has been explained.
47. Now then the (mystic) correspondence,-four clod-bricks he puts on; with a six-versed (hymn) he scatters (the sand); with two (verses) he makes (the seed) grow; that makes twelve,-twelve months are a year, and the year is Agni : as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, so great does this become.
SECOND BRAHMANA. 1. Having smoothed (the sand) down with the two verses containing (the verb) to grow,' and returned (to the hall) he proceeds with the guest offering. Having performed the guest offering, he proceeds with the Pravargya and the U pasada. Having performed the Pravargya and the Upasad, they appease that (first) layer on the (red ox-)skin. And as to why on a skin : for the obtainment of the forms, the skin being outward form ;-on the hairy side: for the obtainment of the forms, hair being outward form ;-on a ruddy (skin): for the obtainment of all forms, all forms (colours being contained) in the ruddy ;-on (the skin) of an ox: for the obtainment of Agni's forms, the ox being the same as Agni; -on (the skin spread) with the neck towards the east, for that (tends) godward.
Sâyana remarks,—The high glory, in the heaven, of Soma growing in the form of a creeper is said to be the moon: in yonder heavenly world that moon indeed, when being drunk (by the gods) in the form (?) of ambrosia, causes bim, Soma, to be celebrated. * See part ii, p. 104.
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