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, 4 ADHYÂYA, I BRÂHMANA, 7.
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into his own self whilst standing, he builds him up sitting ;-Agni is an animal : hence the animal, having received the fætus standing, gives birth after lying down.
3. He now sings the Satya Saman' (true hymn). For the gods then said, 'Let us make the truth (satya) his mouth (or beginning): thus we shall become the truth, truth will turn unto us, and true will become that wish of ours for which we are about to perform this rite!'
4. They sang that 'true hymn' at the outset, and thus made the truth his (Agni's) mouth; and they became the truth ; the truth turned unto them, and true became that wish of theirs for which they performed this rite.
5. And in like manner when the Sacrificer now, at the outset, sings the true hymn,' he thereby makes the truth his (Agni's) mouth; and he (himself) becomes the truth; and truth turns unto him; and true becomes that wish of his for which he performs this rite.
6. Now that truth is the same as the waters, for the waters are the truth. Hence they say, Whereby ? the waters flow, that is a form of the truth.' It is the waters indeed that were made first of this universe : hence when the waters (rains) flow, then everything whatsoever exists is produced here.
7. He then puts down a lotus-leaf (in the centre of
Probably Sâma-v. S. I, 99 (Rik S. I, 69, 4), 'O Agni, lord of bovine food, child of strength, grant unto us, O knower of beings, great gloryl' See Weber, Ind. Stud. XII, p. 148, note 2.
'? Or, in that (or because, yena) the waters flow,—that is to say, the flowing of the waters (rain, &c.) is a manifestation of eternal truth.
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