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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
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Pragâpati's heat, was indeed produced from Agni's heat; he saw the progenitor at first,' the progenitor doubtless is Pragâpati: thus, 'he saw Pragapati at first;'-'thereby the gods at first (agre) went to the godhead;' the he-goat' doubtless is speech, and from speech the gods doubtless first went to the godhead, to the summit (agram) ;— 'thereby they went to the height, the wise;' the height doubtless is the heavenly world: thus, 'thereby they went to the heavenly world, the wise;' -The wild sarabha do I assign unto thee,'he thereby assigns the wild sarabha to him;— 'building up therewith thy forms, get thee settled!' that is, 'building up therewith, perfect thyself!''Let thy burning heat reach the sarabha! let thy burning heat reach him whom we hate!' he thereby lays burning heat into the sarabha, and into him whom he hates.
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37. As to this they say,-The pain (heat), the evil of these animals, which Pragâpati drove out, became these five animals; they, with their pith (sacrificial essence) gone out of them, are pithless, unfit for sacrifice; a Brâhmana should not eat of them he consigns them to that region; whence Parganya does not rain in that region where these
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38. He returns (to the offering-fire) and stands thereby worshipping it ;-for when he goes outside the Vedi, whilst Agni (the fire-altar) is only half built up, he does what is improper; he now makes amends to him to prevent his doing injury. With
''Aga,' he-goat, is here again taken in the sense of 'a-ga,' unborn. As to the gods having sprung from Vâk, see VI, 1, 2, 6 seq. 2 A fabulous animal with eight legs.
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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 |