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SATAPATHA-BRÂHMANA.
dviyagus the hip, the two retahsik the ribs, the visvagyotis the breast-bone, the two seasonal ones the back, the ashadhâ the neck, the tortoise the head, and the vital airs in the tortoise are those vital airs in the head.
36. Now that (Agni) he builds upwards from here (as flying) towards the east, and that Agni being yonder sun, he thereby places yonder sun upwards from here in the east; whence yonder sun is placed upwards from here in the east.
37. He then turns him towards the right!,-he thereby turns yonder sun towards the right, whence yonder sun moves round these worlds (from left) to
right.
38. The fire-pan is the belly, the mortar the womb;—the fire-pan is above, and the mortar below; for the belly is above, and the womb below. The pestle is the sisna ; it is round-like, for the sisna is round-like. He places it to the right (south of the mortar), for the male lies on the right side of the female. And what food there is for the consecrated animal, that is the důrva-brick. The left (north) side of that (Agni or altar) is more raised,—that Agni is an animal, and hence the left side of the belly of a well-filled beast is more raised (than the right side).
SECOND BRÂHMANA. 1. He puts the heads of the victims in (the firepan),—the heads of the victims being animals (or cattle), it is animals he thus puts thereon. He puts them in the fire-pan ;—the pan being these worlds, and the heads of the victims being beasts, he thus
1 ? Viz. by filling up the vacant spaces of the altar from left to right,
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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 |