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.
that man (tends) upward by his vital airs?. He lays him down (with the head) towards the east, for (with the head) towards the east this Agni (the firealtar) is built up.
19. [He lays him down, with Vâg. S. XIII, 4 ; Rik S. X, 121, 1] Hiranyagarbha came first into existence,' for that golden child did come first into existence ;—'born he was the one lord of being;' for he indeed was born as the one lord of all this being ;-'he upholdeth this earth and the sky,' for he (the sun) does uphold both the sky and the earth ;-'to the god Ka let us do homage by offering !' Ka (Who ?) is Pragàpati : thus, 'let us do homage to Him by offering !'
20. [Våg. S. XIII, 5; Rik S. X, 17, 11] “The drop leaped along the earth and sky;' the drop is yonder sun, and he leaps both to the sky and to the earth-thus (in rising) to that (sky), and thus (in setting) to this earth);-along this seat, and that which was afore;' that is, to this world, and to that one; or this (Åhavaniya altar) which is now being built, and that (Garhapatya altar) which yonder was built before;—' (the drop) moving along the common seat;' for he (the sun) moves along that common seat;—'the drop I offer along the seven hotrâs;' the drop is yonder sun; and the seven hotrâs are the regions : he thus establishes yonder sun in the regions.
21. With two (verses) he lays him down ;-twofooted is the Sacrificer, and the Sacrificer is Agni : as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, with so much he thus lays him down ;—with two trishtubh
* CF. VI, 7, 1, 11, where it is said that the immortal part of the vital air of man streams out by upward breathings. Cf.p. 359, n. 1.
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