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-BRÂHMANA.
The wide-ruling one contained the light;' the wide-ruling onedoubtless is this (terrestrial)world: it contains this fire, the light.—The self-ruling one contained the light,' the self-ruling one doubtless is yonder world: it contains yonder sun, the light. And the wide-ruling one and the self-ruling one being these two worlds, he lays them down separately, for separate are these two worlds. He 'settles' them once: he thereby makes them one and the same (or, joined together), whence the ends of these two worlds meet.
24. And, again, why he lays down two seedshedders; the seed-shedders are the testicles, for only he who has testicles sheds seed. The wideruling one contained the light;-the self-ruling one contained the light,' he says; for the wide-ruling and the self-ruling ones are the testicles: they contain that light, the seed, Pragâ pati. He lays them down separately, for separate are these testicles. He 'settles'them once: he thereby makes them one and the same, whence they have a common connectingpart. He lays them down close to the dviyagus (brick) 2: the dviyagus being the Sacrificer, he thus puts the testicles together with the Sacrificer.
25. He then lays down a Visvag yotis (all-light brick) ;—the first 'all-light' (brick)' is Agni, for Agni
Or, the wide-shining ... the self-shining one. . The two Retahsik bricks are laid down immediately in front (east) of the Dviyagus one, one on each side of the spine,' which thus coincides with their line of separation.
. See VI, 5, 3, 3.
• As in the case of the Svayamâtrinnâs (naturally-perforated bricks, see pp. 155, note 8; 187, note 2), so there are three Visvagyotis or 'all-light' bricks, placed in the first, third, and fifth layers
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