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.
selves, therefore (the formulas are called) Sarpanâma. And in like manner does the Sacrificer, when he stands by worshipping with the Sarpanama formulas, stop these worlds for him, and cause these worlds to bend themselves; and so they do not glide away with that self of his
27. And, again, why he stands by worshipping with the Sarpanâma formulas ;—the serpents are these worlds, for whatever creeps (sarp), creeps in these worlds. Now when he worships with the Sarpanâma formulas-whatever fiend there is in these worlds, whatever devourer, whatever ogress,-all that he thereby appeases.
28. [Vâg. S. XIII, 6–8] 'Homage be to the serpents, whichever are on earth, and they that are in the air, and they that are in the sky, to those serpents be homage!' whatever serpents there are in these three worlds to them he thereby does homage.
29. “They that are the darts of demons,' for some (of the serpents), sent by demons, bite;
and those on the trees, and those which lie in holes, to those serpents be homage!'he thereby does homage to the serpents that lie both in trees, and in holes.
30. 'Or those that are in the luminous sphere of the sky; or those in the rays of the sun; those by which abode is made in the waters, to those serpents be homage!' he hereby does homage to them wheresoever they are. He does so by ‘homage, homage,' for homage is sacrifice (worship): by sacrifice, by homage, he thus worships them. Let him therefore not say 'homage be to thee,' to one not worthy of sacrifice, for it
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