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.
for indeed Indra and Agni, as well as Visvakarman, saw this third layer: this is why he lays it down by means of Indra and Agni, and settles it by means of Visvakarman.
5. And, again, as to why he lays it down by means of Indra and Agni, and settles it by means of Visvakarman. When Pragâpati had become relaxed (disjointed), the deities took him and went off in different directions. Indra and Agni, and Visvakarman took his middle part, and kept going away from him.
6. He said to them, 'Come ye to me and restore ye to me wherewith ye are going from me!'-—'What will accrue unto us therefrom?'-'That (part) of my body shall be sacred unto you!'-'So be it!' So Indra and Agni, and Visvakarman restored that (part) unto him.
7. Now that central Svaya m-âtrinnå (naturallyperforated brick)' is that very (part) of his body ;when he now lays down that (brick), he thereby restores to him that (part) of his (Pragapati's) body which this (brick represents) : this is why he now lays down that (brick).
8. (Vag. S. XIV, 11), O Indra and Agni, make ye fast the brick so as not to shake!' as the text so the sense ;-'with thy back thou forcest asunder the earth, and the sky, and the air;' for with its back this (brick) indeed forces asunder the earth, and the sky, and the air.
9. [Våg. S. XIV, 12), ' May Visvakarman settle
air, see also VI, 2, 3, 3. Visvakarman is likewise the deity by which the Visvagyotis-brick, representing Vayu (the wind), the regent of the air-world, is settled; see VIII, 3, 2, 3.
See part iii, p. 155, note 8.
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