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.
(into the left eye), for bright and lustrous these two eyes indeed are ;-with,'This hath become the fiery spirit of all the world, and of Agni Vaisvânara,' here into the right ear) ;—with (Vâg. S. XIII, 40), 'Agni, bright with brightness, the golden disk, lustrous with lustre,' here into the left ear),—thus with two (formulas) containing "all",' for the ear is all.
13. He then lifts up the human head-he thereby exalts it-with, Giver of a thousand thou art : for a thousand thee!' a thousand means everything : thus, 'the giver of everything, for everything (I bestow) thee!'
14. He then puts them (the heads) in (the firepan), first (that of) the man-having taken possession of the man by strength he sets him up;-the man in the middle; on both sides the other victims: he thus sets the man, as the eater, in the midst of cattle ; whence man is the eater in the midst of cattle.
15. The horse and ram on the left (north) side : he thereby puts those two (kinds of) cattle in that region; whence those two (kinds of) cattle are most plentiful in that region.
16. The bull and he-goat on the right (south) side: he thereby puts those two (kinds of) cattle in that region; whence those two (kinds of) cattle are most plentiful in that region.
17. The (head of the) man he places on the milk?, -milk means cattle: he thus establishes the Sacrificer among cattle,—with (Vâg. S. XIII, 41), 'With
* Only the first of the two formulas, however, contains the word visva,' all.
: The pan was partly filled with sand and milk, see VII, 1, 1, 41. 44.
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