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.
29. Here now they say, 'How does that (remainder) of his come to be put on as cooked, as baked?'-In that it is prepared with a sacrificial formula; and, moreover, whatever comes in contact with Agni Vaisvânara even thereby comes to be put on as something cooked, as baked.
30. [He sets the fire-pan down, with Vag. S. XIII, 34-35] 'Steady thou art, supporting,' the meaning of this has been explained';'from here he was at first born, from these wombs, the knower of beings;' for from these wombs the knower of beings (Agni) was indeed born at first ;— 'by the Gayatri, the Trishtubh, and the Anushubh, may he, the knowing, bear the offering to the gods!'-by means of these metres he, the knowing, indeed bears the offering to the gods.
31. For sap, for wealth, do thou rest, for might in glory, for strength, for offspring!' that is, for all that do thou rest!-'all-ruling thou art, self-ruling thou art!' for both all-ruling and self-ruling he (Agni) indeed is;-'may the two Sarasvata wells cheer thee!' Sarasvat (m.) is the Mind, and Sarasvati (f.) Speech,-these two are the Sârasvata wells: thus, may these two cheer thee! With two (formulas) he sets it down: the significance of this has been explained; and, moreover, twofold is that form, (consisting as it does of) clay and water. Having 'settled' it, he pronounces the Sûdadohas on it the significance of this has been explained.
32. He then offers upon it;-now seed was poured into it before, (in the shape of) sand; that he now
of the more usual ablative-see VI, 2, 2, 38, 'prânasya tad antariyât.'
2 See VII, I, I, 41.
1 VII, 4, 2, 5.
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