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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA. curds,—sour curds are life-sap: it is life-sap he thus puts into him.
39. And, again, why he lays down two offeringspoons. When Pragapati was relaxed, Agni took his (Pragàpati's) fiery spirit, and carried it off to the south, and there stopped ; and because after carrying (karsh) it off he stopped (ud-ram), therefore the Kårshmarya (sprang up). And Indra took his (Pragapati's) vigour and went away to the north : it became the Udumbara tree.
40. He (Pragàpati) said to those two, 'Come ye to me, and put back into me that (substance) of mine wherewith ye have gone off !'-'Well then, bestow thou all food here on us two!' they said. — Well then, join me, becoming these two arms of mine!'
So be it!' He bestowed all food on them, and they joined him, becoming those two arms of his : hence it is by the arms that food is made, and by means of the arms that it is eaten, for he (Pragapati) bestowed all food on the two arms.
41. The kârshmarya one he lays down on the right side, with (Våg. S. XIII, 13), ‘By Agni's fiery spirit'I settle thee!'—that fiery spirit of his (Pragàpati's) which Agni then took and carried off to the south, he now puts back into him.--'Agni, the head, the summit of the sky, he, the lord of the earth, animates the seeds of the waters,' for Agni indeed is this (spoon). With a Gayatri verse (he performs),-Agni is Gâyatra : as great as Agni is, as great as is his measure, with so much he thus lays down that (spoon). It is filled with ghee, for ghee belongs to Agni : with his own share, with his own life-sap he thus gratifies him.
42. He then lays down the udumbara one on the
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| SR No. | 007681 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 01 |
| 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 |